Human Rights

Monday, 10 December 2018 Armanshahr Foundation, in collaboration with Afghanistan Women’s News Agency, Afghanistan Democracy and Development Organisation and the “Green Home” Influential Women and Youth Organization, held a public dialogue conference with the title […]

A three-day educational workshop on “sexual and gender-based violence and crimes in war and after war”, was organised by Armanshahr Foundation, in collaboration with Afghanistan Development and Democracy Organisation and Afghanistan Women’s News Agency, from 8-10 December 2018.

8 December 2018 Armanshahr Foundation is holding the 6th Human Rights Week from 8-14 December, as in the past six years, marking the National Day of Victims in Afghanistan (9 December), the International Human Rights […]

For this edition of the 5th International Simorgh Peace Prize, five schools from Kabul, Herat and Kandahar provinces were selected as the awardees of the lapis lazuli Simorgh Peace Statute.

Representations in Afghanistan: Unprecedented Challenges & Lessons Learned, K. Wigard, G. Jahangiri, Z. Moballegh & Challenges for Legal representation of Victims of U.S. Torture on Territory of Afghanistan & other ICC States Parties, K. Gallagher

Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) against both women and men remain invisible and go unpunished. FIDH calls on the ICC and national jurisdictions to step up the fight against impunity for sexual violence.

17th session of the ASP to ICC Speech delivered on 6 Dec. 18 in The Hague by Guissou Jahangiri, FIDH Vice President & Armanshahr/OPEN ASIA Exec. Director: Provide the Court with the resources it needs, in Burundi and Georgia, Afghanistan & Palestine.

Self-representation of women in court is a key technique because we found out that the numbers of women who want to get justice in court are many more than the number of advocates we have

Human Wrongs Watch Continued denial of the facts and evidence of gross human rights violations by Myanmar is a clear indication of the country’s “lack of interest” in establishing a fully functioning democracy based on […]

The international gathering where countries report on their country’s progress on women’s rights and gender equality will focus on prevention of violence against women and girls.