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Armanshahr/OPENASIA HR & Civil Society Newsletter – issue 115 year VII

Armanshahr/OPENASIA HR & Civil Society Newsletter – issue 114 year VII

Armanshahr/OPENASIA HR & Civil Society Newsletter – issue 113 year VII

Armanshahr/OPENASIA HR & Civil Society Newsletter – issue 112 year VII

The fight for sexual and reproductive rights has been the cornerstone of feminist activism and struggle for many decades. The second wave of feminism saw women’s organisations and feminists mobilising around (amongst other important struggles […]

The outline Iran nuclear deal has highlighted divisions in the region—not just between majority Shia and Sunni states but between those supporting the status quo and those challenging it.

Two decades after the Fourth World Conference on Women, women and girls around the world deserve better than this year’s CSW outcomes

In an irony of sorts, as its 28th session concludes today, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) has demonstrated its relevance as the main international human rights body only with regard to issues and countries – mass surveillance, the relationship between freedoms of expression and religion and, to some extent, Syria – in the face of which the international community has seemingly been in a stalemate.

The Human Rights Council this afternoon closed its twenty-eighth session after it adopted eight texts, including on extending the mandate of the Independent Expert on Mali, on combating intolerance, negative stereotyping and stigmatization of persons based on religion or belief, on the prevention of genocide, and on the impact of the world drug problem on the enjoyment of human rights. The Human Rights Council also elected four mandate holders.

Armanshahr/OPENASIA HR & Civil Society Newsletter – issue 111 year VII