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Celebrating International Day of the Girl Child, from India to Uganda
Women’s News I was interviewing and photographing a group of activist girls in Kampala, Uganda. Many were daughters of sex workers, all […]
Thursday 12 October 2017Inside the CIA’s black site torture room
The Guardian Words by Larry Siems There were 20 cells inside the prison, each a stand-alone concrete box. In 16, prisoners were shackled to a metal ring in the wall. In four, designed for sleep […]
Thursday 12 October 2017Special SIMORGH PEACE PRIZE: Armanshahr HR & Civil Society NEWSLETTER?No.206-208 (YEAR IX)
Read New bilingual issue of Armanshahr Human Rights and Civil SocietyNewsletter, Special SIMORGH PEACE PRIZE, No.206-208 (YEAR IX)
Monday 9 October 2017October 10: World Day15th World Day Against the Death Penalty: Poverty
Armanshahr/OPEN ASIA joins the 15th World Day Against the Death Penalty. The death penalty is used discriminatorily, often against the most vulnerable people and should be abolished. The application of the death penalty is inextricably linked to poverty.
Monday 9 October 2017Armanshahr/OPEN ASIA Call for submission of works to the 5th Simorgh International Peace Prize
Call for submission of works to the 5th Simorgh International Peace Prize. This round the Prize follows the motto “My ideal city” and is concerned with poems, stories and drawings by children and adolescents of Afghanistan. Deadline 22 OCT 2017.
Monday 9 October 2017THEY SAID WE ARE THEIR SLAVES
Human Rights Watch During nearly five years of conflict, armed groups in the Central African Republic have committed widespread sexual violence and used rape and sexual slavery as a tactic of war. Two main parties […]
Monday 9 October 2017Kenya: 10 years after electoral violences, Security and Justice reforms remain key
FIDH Nairobi, Paris, 3 August 2017 – Regardless of the outcome of next week’s General Election, it is vital that Kenya continues to strengthen its reforms in the security and judiciary sectors, underlines a new […]
Thursday 5 October 2017The United Nations Counter-Terrorism Complex: Bureaucracy, Political Influence, Civil Liberties
FIDH (New York) In a new report released on September 26th, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) describes how the effectiveness of the United Nations (UN) and its member states in the fight against […]
Thursday 5 October 2017Merkel’s Defeat Confirms Dismal Trend for Europe
Inter Press Service Generally, media have failed to analyse why the result of German elections is the worst possible. Merkel is not a winner, but a leader now in a very fragile position, who will […]
Thursday 5 October 2017Horrific Accounts of Sexual Violence against Muslim Rohingya ‘Just Tip of the Iceberg’ – UN
Human Wrongs Watch 28 September 2017 – Warning that the horrific accounts of rape and sexual assault against Rohingya women and girls fleeing unrest in Myanmar could be “just the tip of the iceberg,” the […]
Thursday 5 October 2017
