Human Rights
Do Women Count?
On the occasion of International Women’s Rights Day, FIDH is launching a website page presenting 101 shocking statistics on sexist violence and discrimination against women worldwide.
Friday 9 March 2018This is how the global feminist revolution began
This is no utopia. We still have our problems. Power inequalities still exist. Parliamentary democracy is just one, and not necessarily the best, way of doing democracy.
Thursday 8 March 2018Juste Une Gifle? Interview with Niki Konstantinidou, the author of the book
Just One Slap? is a French creative non-fiction about Katya in her thirties and mother of baby Zoe, victims of domestic violence in France. It focuses on physical and psychological violence of Katya’s former partner, as well as the institutional violence directed against them.
Thursday 8 March 2018Afghanistan: Alleged Summary Executions by Special Forces
An Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) police stands guard next to an Afghanistan flag at a guard post of a police camp in Now Zad district in Helmand province, southwestern Afghanistan November 6, 2012. © […]
Monday 5 March 2018US Claim of ‘No Civilian Casualties’ is Tested in Afghanistan
HRW – My almost 2-year-old daughter fell on her head in a Washington, DC Starbucks, and it made me think of the children I met in Afghanistan just weeks before. I was there to meet with civilian […]
Monday 5 March 2018‘I never thought as a film-maker that I would feel endangered’
The Guardian – The director of the Oscar-nominated documentary Last Men in Aleppo speaks of ‘trauma and paranoia’ over the extreme lengths some are taking to stop him from telling the truth. On 4 March, the […]
Thursday 1 March 2018Armanshahr/OPEN ASIA Human Rights and Civil society Newsletter No. 216-217
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Wednesday 28 February 2018Lebanese Social Worker Sisters Tackle Radicalization
VOA NEWS – BEIRUT, LEBANON — Within the confines of Lebanon’s Roumieh prison they gathered together as men recounting lives led before they became seen as terrorists. Inmates whose affiliations spanned across Islamic State (IS) and a […]
Monday 26 February 2018Transitional Justice Coordination Group Press Statement
In connection with the registration of war victims’ complaints with the International Criminal Court to address war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Afghanistan since May 2003.
Tuesday 20 February 2018Endemic misogyny
The most recent rape and murder in Pakistan caused a huge public outcry. Though similar cases in India have tended to attract fewer headlines, sexual violence in both countries is an ongoing problem
Tuesday 20 February 2018
