Editor Selection

Cairo, Paris, 13 February 2014 – On the occasion of the third anniversary of the popular uprising that started on February 14, 2011, FIDH urges the Bahraini authorities to take immediate measures to restore the […]

Source: The Guardian Group let out of Parwan detention centre by Hamid Karzai are accused by US military of killing Afghan and Nato forces. Afghanistan has released 65 accused militants from a former US prison […]

A well-known lawyer in Afghanistan, Mohammad Farid Hamidi is Deputy Director of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, where he has been a Commissioner for the past 11 years.

Dr. Habiba Sarabi is the first and only woman to be appointed a provincial governor in Afghanistan: she served as the Governor of Bamiyan province from 2005 until 2013.

Unveiling Afghanistan Campaign: Aman Pouyamak is a poet and a writer. He published a clandestine magazine, working in secret with Afghan women during the reign of the Taliban. After the Taliban’s departure, he established a literary society called Eshraq [Intuition].

Armanshahr Human Rights and Civil Society bilingual newsletter is now published every week. Read issue 54, year VI

Source: chicagotribune.com WASHINGTON/KABUL (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama met his senior military commanders to discuss the American presence in Afghanistan as officials in Kabul confirmed President Hamid Karzai’s government has been holding secret talks […]

Unveiling Afghanistan Campaign: Seyyedeh Mojgan Mostafavi is the Deputy Minister for Women’s Affairs, and a Professor in the School of Journalism at Kabul University.

Paris-Geneva, February 7, 2014 – On February 6, 2014, the European Parliament renewed its call for the immediate and unconditional release of prominent human rights defender Nabeel Rajab, President of the Bahrain Centre for Human […]