Issues
Rights groups call on UN experts to intervene on behalf of a Kurdish women’s rights activist on the seventh anniversary of her arrest on Women’s Day
Source: Justice for Iran London, 8 March 2015 – In a petition filed this week, REDRESS and Justice for Iran have urged the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to intervene on behalf of a […]
Sunday 8 March 2015SPECIAL ISSUE no.108 – International Women’s Day year VII
SPECIAL ISSUE no.108 – International Women’s Day year VII
Sunday 8 March 2015Letter from the gallows in Iran: “I felt the shadow of execution over my head”
We rarely hear a first-hand account of those languishing on death row in Iran. But a letter has just emerged from Hamed Ahmadi, a man executed on Wednesday 4 March after a grossly unfair trial.
Sunday 8 March 2015Impunity and Silence: The meagre reaction to the latest HRW report
Source: AAN Author: Thomas Ruttig Date: 4 March 2015 Human rights abuses in Afghanistan no longer make big waves outside the really concerned circles. Yesterday (on 3 March 2015), Human Rights Watch released a hard-hitting piece of […]
Thursday 5 March 2015HRW Report – Afghanistan: Abusive Strongmen Escape Justice
Afghanistan’s new government should prosecute officials and commanders whose serious human rights abuses have long gone unpunished, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. US officials should press President Ashraf Ghani to take up justice for past abuses as a top priority during Ghani’s expected March 2015 visit to Washington, DC.
Thursday 5 March 2015EU a key player in ICC system
The strong EU policy in support of the ICC has a firm institutional foundation in a detailed 2011 Council Decision (2011/168/CFSP) and a 2011 Action Plan on its implementation.
Thursday 5 March 2015Immunity = impunity
No immunity for heads of state or high ranking officials is fundamental to the object and purpose of the Rome Statute of the ICC: to bring to justice those most responsible for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
Thursday 5 March 2015Indonesia : Stop executions, reinstate moratorium, and make progress towards abolishing capital punishment
We, the undersigned organizations, condemn in the strongest possible terms your decision to deny clemency to 10 individuals who are scheduled to be executed by firing squad in the coming days in Nusakambangan prison in Central Java.
Wednesday 4 March 2015Jailed Iranian artist on hunger strike
Iranian prisoner of conscience and painter, Atena Farghadani, has been on a hunger strike, protesting her detention, since 9 February and is now critically ill.
Monday 2 March 2015Human rights idealism a hard sell in Afghanistan
Two reports were released on Wednesday reprimanding Afghanistan on its state of human rights. The United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan’s (UNAMA) annual report on torture in detention, states that one-third of the 790 conflict-related detainees interviewed have been tortured or otherwise mistreated.
Sunday 1 March 2015
