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Entries are now being accepted for the 2nd International Women’s Film Festival – Herat. Call on new or established filmmakers from anywhere in the world for a one-week festival held in March 2014 to commemorate International Women’s Day.

Armanshahr Human Rights & Civil Society newsletter – issue 47 year VI

We, the undersigned 62 regional and international organizations, express outrage over the Lao Government’s ongoing failure to shed light on the enforced disappearance of prominent activist and civil society leader Sombath Somphone. December 15, 2013 […]

Mr. Rajab, President of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR), is serving a two years’ imprisonment sentence for advocating and exercising the right to peaceful assembly. He has been detained since July 9, 2012. […]

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.

7 ridiculous restrictions on women’s rights around the world

The New York Times By ELLEN BARRY and MANSI CHOKSI In Mumbai Case, a Group of Assault Suspects Had Little Fear of the Law MUMBAI, India — At 5:30 p.m. on that Thursday, four young men were playing […]

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.