Human Rights

UN NEWS CENTER: Opening remarks by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay at a press conference during her visit to Afghanistan Kabul, 17 September 2013 Good morning, and thank you for coming. This […]

HRW to President Karzai: Implement Elimination of Violence Against Women Law. “The presidential election approaching, as Afghanistan’s leader & as the president who signed the EVAW Law, you will want to leave with a lasting legacy of respect for women’s rights.”

EU HR Guidelines published or the first time in Persian. Including Death Penalty; Torture, HR dialogues with third countries; Children & armed conflict; HR Defenders; Protection of the Rights of the Child; VAW, International Humanitarian Law.

FIDH – International Federation for Human Rights PEN International Article 19 IFEX Joint press release   Stifled Southeast Asian Voices: NGOs Unite Against Criminalization of Free Expression on the Internet http://www.fidh.org/stifled-southeast-asian-voices-ngos-unite-against-criminalization-of-free-13931 Geneva, 11 September 2013 […]

BBC The body representing judges in Chile has made an unprecedented apology for the actions of its members under military rule in the 1970s and 1980s. It a statement, it said that the judiciary at […]

Education in crisis. The mix of poverty, insecurity & lack of trained teachers in Ghor made many parents refrain from sending. Empty classrooms, fake girls’ schools, teachers’ salaries siphoned off by warlords: in Afghanistan’s west, the shadows of strongmen loom large.

    FIDH and its member organization, the League for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran (LDDHI), express the disappointment at recent statements by Iranian high-level officials regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran’s persistent […]

I congratulate Armanshahr colleagues for their success, because they are a small group but full of energy, new and useful ideas.

The Uzbek government continues to force its citizens to work in cotton fields, in hazardous conditions and for no or negligible pay. Meanwhile, the Government has indicated no interest in ending the forced-labour production system.

Global Voices Alexander Sodiqov An international conference on water cooperation ended in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, on August 21. More than 900 representatives from about 70 countries and organizations attended the conference. Yet the […]