Issues

5th round of Simorgh Peace Prize: thirty best works of Afghanistan’s children is published over a 30-day campaign to expose their clear voices celebrating peace and rejecting war.

From domestic violence to forced sex work, and women categorised as “moral criminals” are jailed alongside convicted murderers.

The Many Dangers of Being an Afghan Woman in Uniform. Afghanistan has never come close to its set recruitment benchmarks for women.

The first-ever all-female TV news station there runs a lot like any station in the U.S., with one big exception: These journalists are risking their lives.

Two imams in Afghanistan are on a quest to educate men and women on the use of contraception as a means to halt the deaths of women at childbirth.

The Independent Experts’ Assessment on the Impact of Armed Conflict on Women and Women’s Role in Peace-building by Elisabeth Rehn and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Download here As Executive Director of UNIFEM I have witnessed the impact […]

The HRD World Summit 2018 brings together a group of 150 HRDs, from around the world. The Summit is a unique space to convene marginalised groups, including ethnic & religious minorities, diverse gender identity activists, indigenous peoples & other defenders who are geographically remote from centres of power, media …

OPEN ASIA/ Armanshahr joins hundreds of organisations and personalities calling on the Government of Spain to undertake the necessary steps for the recovery of the Universal Jurisdiction of Spain. The recent political change produced in Spain must necessarily bring, is the reversal of setbacks in terms of human rights, recovering, the lost ground.

Many countries with Sharia-derived legislation criminalize consensual sexual relations outside of marriage. This criminalization creates important barriers to women’s access to protection against rape, as documented widely over the last two decades.

The report highlights the grave crimes perpetrated against Yazidi captives, including at the hands of foreign ISIL fighters. Among the nationalities documented by Kinyat and FIDH: French, German, American, Saudi, Libyan, Tunisian, Lebanese, Palestinian, Yemeni and Chinese fighters.