Issues

Using the Better Peace Tool’s four-part framework to realize inclusion in peace processes, the animation explores the various components of transitional justice and offers five practical steps to ensure a gender sensitive and inclusive process.

Source: Reporters Without Frontiers  Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is concerned about an increase in threats and violence against media personnel in Afghanistan, where six media workers have been killed and ten journalists have been injured […]

Source: Workers World By Deirdre Griswold The recent film “War Machine,” made by Brad Pitt and released by Netflix, centers around an egotistical general commanding U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Its message boils down to this […]

Participation by Women Even More Urgent in Light of Recent Attacks in Kabul

Source: 21st Century Wire By Andre Vltchek It was late at night but the new Terminal 3 at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport outside Jakarta was still bustling with families and friends waiting for their loved ones […]

Source : Human Rights Watch     Dear NATO Members, At last year’s NATO Summit in Warsaw, member states endorsed a new policy on the protection of civilians. This policy came at a crucial time, […]

Source: FIDH New information BHR 006 / 0812 / OBS 048.28 Arbitrary detention /Judicial harassment Bahrain May 29, 2017 30 May 2017 – Nabeel Rajab’s trial related to TV interviews was postponed for the 8th […]

Source : Human Wrongs Watch By Robert J. Burrowes* DAYLESFORD, Australia, 1 March, 2017 – It is already clearly apparent, as many predicted, that Donald Trump’s election as president of the United States would signal the start […]

The minimum age of marriage, according to US law, is 18. There is a legal gray zone, however- every state allows marriages of children below 18 with parental or judicial consent.There is no legislation to raise the marriageable age bar or to ban child marriages in 38 states of the US.

Source: TRT World Author:  Ali M Latifi As the militant group steps up its attacks in the country, Afghans still see Daesh as a mysterious foreign entity whose makeup and intentions remain unclear to both officials […]