Geography
Azita Rafa’t: “It was the day when 10,000 rockets hit the city”
Unveiling Afghanistan Campaign: Azita Rafa’at is a human and women’s rights activist from Badghis province. She was a people’s representative in the Emergency Loya Jirga to elect the transitional administration in 2002
Tuesday 4 February 2014Afghanistan’s Transition in the Making: Perceptions and Policy Strategies of Women Parliamentarians, Heinrich Böll Stiftung Afghanistan
After more than a decade of an international intervention and close to the proclaimed second post-2014 transition phase, women’s political participation remains precarious and volatile in Afghanistan despite inroads made.
Monday 3 February 2014Kaweh Jobran: “Allow me not to wish for my daughter”
Unveiling Afghanistan Campaign: Kaweh Jobran is a professor in literature in the State University in Kapisa province and works as a journalist with national and international media based from Kabul. A published poet and essayist, he is an active blogger and influential young thinker.
Monday 3 February 2014Not a “Tailless Star”: an obituary for leading Afghan intellectual Muhammad Qasim Akhgar
On Tuesday night (28 January 2014), with the passing away of Muhammad Qasim Akhgar, Afghanistan lost one of its leading intellectuals. Ustad Akhgar died after a long illness, only 62 years old and he died […]
Saturday 1 February 2014Dr Sima Samar: “Human rights have a value now in Afghanistan”
Dr Sima Samar is the current Chairperson of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission. A doctor by training, Samar spent a decade in exile in Pakistan.
Friday 31 January 2014Principles of Medical Ethics relevant to the Role of Health Personnel, particularly Physicians, in the Protection of Prisoners and Detainees against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Adopted by General Assembly resolution 37/194 of 18 December 1982 Principle 1 Health personnel, particularly physicians, charged with the medical care of prisoners and detainees have a duty to provide them with protection of their […]
Thursday 30 January 2014Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Being Subjected to Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Article 1 1. For the purpose of this Declaration, torture means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted by or at the instigation of a public official […]
Thursday 30 January 2014United Nations Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty
The General Assembly, Bearing in mind the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and the […]
Thursday 30 January 2014Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment
The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 35/177 of 15 December 1980, in which it referred the task of elaborating the draft Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention […]
Thursday 30 January 2014Armanshahr Human Rights & Civil Society newsletter – issue 53 year VI
Armanshahr Human Rights & Civil Society newsletter – issue 53 year VI
Thursday 30 January 2014
