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Armanshahr Human Rights & Civil Society newsletter – issue 59 year VI

Seddiq Barmak fell in love with the world of cinema when he saw his first film, ‘Lawrence of Arabia’, at Kabul theatre at a tender 5 years of age. His film, ‘Osama’, was the first movie filmed in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban in 2001, and won the Golden Globe award in 2004.

On the eve of International Women’s Day and less than one month before presidential elections, FIDH and its member organisation in Afghanistan, Armanshahr/OPEN ASIA urge the national authorities to ensure full and direct participation of women in a free and fair election process and call on the presidential candidates to make the promotion and safeguard of women’s rights and their legal protection their priority.

FIDH expresses its deep concern about Iranian authorities’ refusal to give sick prisoners of conscience access to adequate medical care, resulting in further deterioration of their health, and fears this may amount to a systematic […]

In the first two months of this year, 145 cruel, inhuman and humiliation death Sentence and executions Has been carried  in Prisons and various cities in Iran according to official sources (70) Unofficial sources (75). […]

Najiba Ayubi is a journalist and activist for human rights and freedom of the press. She is the Director of the Killid Group, a non-profit Afghan media network encompassing press, radio, and online outlets with a national reach. Ayubi left Afghanistan with her family when the Taliban seized Kabul in 1996.

The second round of the International Women’s Film Festival – Herat has been postponed to spring 2014!!! The secretariat of the Women’s Film Festival informs all participants that due to security reasons and the upcoming presidential elections in April 2014, the International Film Festival will be held this spring.

Ahmad Shah Behzad is a Member of Parliament from Herat province. He was forced to migrate to Iran during the war and stayed there until the fall of the Taliban. Upon his return to Afghanistan with his family, he started working as a journalist for Radio Azadi.

Roya Sadat was one of the first female filmmakers to emerge after the fall of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. She studied law and political science at Herat University but her real passion was in film.

Source: ATR ATR conducted in depth quantitative research with more than 4,200 respondents in different regions to shed light on dominant perceptions of the Taliban, of state control, as well as the role of the […]