Events

Umeddzhon Tojiev, an activist from one of Tajikistan’s major opposition parties allegedly threw himself out of the third floor window of a police station following interrogation. He had been arrested for ’insubordination to police officers’.

The int. community should ensure that States responsible for gross human rights violations & that fail to protect human rights defenders or cooperate with the UN are not elected to the UN’s top human rights body.

126th (year VIII) debate GOFTEGU: Who carries the torch of knowledge? On the occasion of International days of teachers & students and to mark the beginning of Armanshahr/OPEN ASIA’s 8th year of public debates. In collaboration with IFA & Ibn Sina University.

125th Debate of Armanshahr Foundation, “Elections and rural women”, organised, in collaboration with Women’s Affairs Directorate of Herat province, in Guzara District. Intellectuals, civil society activists, District Council members & women activists took part.

Two hundred and eighteen rights defenders in Shanghai signed a public appeal urging the United Nations not to elect China to the 47-member Human Rights Council. The election will be held on November 12 among UN member states in the General Assembly.

Uzbek Bureau on Human Rights and Rule of Law (UBHRRL), with the support of FIDH, published a report on “Uzbekistan’s Implementation of the UN Convention against Torture “.

Conviction of two Saudi Arabian women’s rights defenders, Ms. Wajiha Al-Huwaider and Ms. Fawzia Al-Uyuni, sentenced to ten months imprisonment and a two-year travel ban.

Special Update for 11th World Day Against the Death Penalty FIDH, LDDHI Death Penalty in Iran : A State Terror Policy The change of administration in the Islamic Rep175038412-DP-Report-Update-for-World-Day-October-2013-Engublic of Iran (IRI) and taking of […]

“Long live death!” is how Franco’s militias sometimes celebrated their victories during the 1930s Spanish civil war. Yes, there have always been – and remain – those States that champion death over life, barbarism over reason. And what better symbol of this outmoded ideology than the death penalty?

By Rod Nordland New York Times KABUL, Afghanistan » So many people were buried alive by bulldozers in the barren fields around the Pul-e-Charkhi Prison on Kabul’s outskirts that guilty soldiers later said it was like […]