Issues
FAROKH GHAFARI: THE COSMOPOLITAN
Tehran Review The French-Iranian Film Connection ❸ The 1950 box office success of the musical melodrama Sharmsar (later distributed as Ashamed) marked a turning point in the history of Iranian cinema. It made lead actress Esmat Baboli—as Delkash, already […]
Saturday 21 November 2020The Chief of the Australian Defence Force receives the Afghanistan Inquiry report
On 6 November 2020, the Chief of the Defence Force (CDF), General Angus Campbell, AO, DSC, received the Afghanistan Inquiry report from the Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force (IGADF). The independent inquiry was commissioned […]
Wednesday 18 November 2020The Biden Presidency: What choices for Afghan policy remain?
Decisions taken in Washington have, for the last 20 years, been fundamental to what happens in Afghanistan, and that is especially the case now. What policy paths will still be open to Biden when he takes office ?
Friday 13 November 2020Australia appoints Afghanistan war crimes prosecutor
A special prosecutor is to pursue war crimes allegedly staged by elite Australian soldiers in Afghanistan between 2005 and 2016.
Thursday 12 November 2020Femicide Watch call 2020
UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Dubravka Simonovic, in 2015, to establish a “femicide watch” and/or observatories on gender related killings of women,
Thursday 12 November 2020Afghan, Australian and international human rights and legal organisations call for public release of Justice Brereton’s Afghanistan Inquiry report
Over 20 organisations including OPEN ASIA|Armanshahr Foundation wrote to the Assistant Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force, urging him to commit to releasing the report of the Inquiry into allegations of breaches of int. humanitarian law by Australian special forces in Afghanistan.
Friday 30 October 2020Innovating to combat violence against women in the context of COVID19
Webinar exchange between women’s rights defenders from France, Mexico, South Africa, and Tunisia, four countries in which feminist organisations reacted quickly to the exacerbation of violence against women linked to the COVID-19 crisis.
Monday 17 August 2020“Write in the light, be angry and revolt”: 7 Arab women writers who became icons of feminism
Raseef22 The Lebanese intellectual Gibran Khalil Gibran was right when he said: “Those who write in ink are not like those who write with the blood of the heart.” And Arab feminist writers are the […]
Monday 17 August 2020Tehran (IP) – A group of Iranian artists wrote an open letter to the global counterparts regarding the outbreak of coronavirus
Iran Press/ Iran News: A group of Iranian artists wrote an open letter to the global counterparts regarding the outbreak of the Coronavirus, which reads as follows: “Corona is not just a virus, it is a simple […]
Thursday 2 July 2020URGENT APPEAL: The killing of Ms. Fatima Khalil, Donor Liaison Officer at Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC), and her driver Mr. Jawid Folad,
URGENT APPEAL – THE OBSERVATORY AFG 002 / 0720 / OBS 075 Killing Afghanistan July 1, 2020 The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) […]
Thursday 2 July 2020
