Events

I congratulate Armanshahr colleagues for their success, because they are a small group but full of energy, new and useful ideas.

Two years after the release of a report calling for increased protection of the rights of Tajik migrant workers, in June 2013 FIDH and ADC Memorial returned to Tajikistan to investigate institutional and legal changes and new challenges faced by Tajikmigrant workers and their families. Particular attention was paid to gendered aspects of migration, the situation of women migrants and of the spouses of migrant workers.

An alliance of 36 Afghan and international civil society organisations have urged the Afghan government and its donors to deliver on their commitment to effective oversight in the country’s extractives sector. The call, made in letters sent to the Afghan Minister of Mines, Wahidullah Shahrani (http://cts.vresp.com/c/?GlobalWitness/929710e6d6/18f696b56d/6462613399), and key international partners (http://cts.vresp.com/c/?GlobalWitness/929710e6d6/18f696b56d/c95e81902f) comes ahead of a crucial meeting taking place in Kabul on the 3rd July.

120th Goftegu Public Debate: Task of the Next Government in the face of Monster of Illiteracy – Invitation

Mr Rooholamin Amini (Deputy director of Armanshahr Foundation), moderator of Armanshahr’s 118th Goftegu public debate that was held on 3 July 2013, presented a report on the activities of Armanshahr in the past seven years as follows.

OHCHR Report Calls for Integrating Human Rights Standards in Post-2015 Development Goals 22 May 2013: A report from the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) calls for integrating human rights standards […]

No one knows who killed Islam Bibi. The 37-year old police lieutenant, the most senior female officer in southern Afghanistan’s dangerous Helmand province, was riding a motorcycle to work in early July with her son-in-law, when she was shot and killed.

In the past few weeks, the human rights situation in Bahrain has rapidly deteriorated ahead of planned mass protests on August 14th. With many of the country’s most prominent Human Rights Defenders behind bars, local […]

Working Paper   Gustavo Marin Following on from the Biocivilization for the Sustainability of Life and the Planet Contents Rethinking and changing world governance Actors: their relations, their contradictions 1. Transnational corporations (TNCs) 2. The state →dialectic between […]

Campaigning lawyers challenge legal defence set out by RAF as six protesters await trial over mass trespass of UK drone HQl Owen Bowcott, legal affairs correspondent The Guardian, Saturday 8 June 2013 An RAF MQ-9 […]