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Control and Sexuality: The Revival of Zina Laws in Muslim Contexts
Control and Sexuality examines zina laws in some Muslim contexts and communities in order to explore connections between the criminalisation of sexuality, gender-based violence and women’s rights activism.
Thursday 4 September 2014Armanshahr Human Rights & Civil Society newsletter – issue 84 year VII
Armanshahr Human Rights & Civil Society newsletter – issue 84 year VII
Saturday 30 August 2014Armanshahr Human Rights & Civil Society newsletter – issue 83 year VII
Armanshahr Human Rights & Civil Society newsletter – issue 83 year VII
Saturday 23 August 2014Why War: Einstein and Freud’s Little-Known Correspondence on Violence, Peace, and Human Nature
Despite his enormous contributions to science,Albert Einstein was no reclusive genius, his ever-eager conversations and correspondence engaging such diverse partners as the Indian philosopher Tagore and a young South African girl who wanted to be a scientist.
Tuesday 19 August 2014Armanshahr Human Rights & Civil Society newsletter – issue 82 year VII
Armanshahr Human Rights & Civil Society newsletter – issue 82 year VII
Saturday 16 August 2014Armanshahr Human Rights & Civil Society newsletter – issue 81 year VII
Armanshahr Human Rights & Civil Society newsletter – issue 81 year VII
Saturday 9 August 2014THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF WOMEN – A REFERENCE GUIDE TO OFFICIAL UNITED NATIONS DOCUMENTS
United Nations Charter (excerpts) Universal Declaration of Human Rights (excerpts) International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (excerpts) International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (excerpts) Convention on the Rights of the Child (excerpts) […]
Tuesday 5 August 2014Convention on the Political Rights of Women, 193 U.N.T.S. 135, entered into force July 7, 1954.
The Contracting Parties, Desiring to implement the principle of equality of rights for men and women contained in the Charter of the United Nations, Recognizing that everyone has the right to take part in the […]
Tuesday 5 August 2014WINNERS OF Short-film festival, Women Bought and Sold: Voices United Against the Violence, include entries from Afghanistan
In this year’s contest, 46 films were accepted from countries in the Middle East and North Africa, Central and South Asia, Europe, and North America, in the categories of Fiction, Documentary, Experimental, and Student.
Tuesday 5 August 2014European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) Standards
The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) was set up under the 1987 Council of Europe Convention of the same name (hereinafter “the Convention”). According to Article 1 of […]
Saturday 2 August 2014