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In this 6th edition of the Simorgh Peace Prize, Armanshahr lauded “Protectors of cultural heritage and written heritage” resisting war, destruction and oblivion aiming to protect “collective memory” and awarded them the lapis lazuli Simorgh Peace Statute in Kabul.

AAN Author: Ehsan Qaane and Sari Kouvo   The judges of the International Criminal Court’s Appeals Chamber are now deciding whether to authorise an investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly perpetrated in Afghanistan. The court’s Pre-Trial Chamber […]

“Without the ICC, justice in Afghanistan is an empty slogan. The never-ending impunity in Afghanistan shows why the ICC, as a court of last resort, is so desperately needed.”

US Central Intelligence Agency -backed Afghan forces have committed summary executions & other grave abuses without accountability. These strike forces have unlawfully killed civilians during night raids, forcibly disappeared detainees, & attacked healthcare facilities.

The 40th FIDH Congress will take place October 21-25, 2019 in Taipei, Taiwan, bringing together 450 representatives of local, regional and international civil society, experts, diplomats, representatives of international institutions, Taiwanese political authorities, and our financial partners

During the past four decades of war, the Mine Action Programme of Afghanistan has cleared more than 18 million explosive remnants of war, about 737,000 anti-personnel mines and over 30,000 anti-vehicle mines since 1989

Watch Video As the Taliban and US negotiate a peace deal, Afghan women fear their rights and freedoms will be traded for stability. “If they captured us, they’d kill us.” Laila Haidari drives a car, […]

(Paris, Geneva) Human rights defenders in Iran, long-time targets of the government, have been subjected to systematic judicial harassment since late 2017. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, an FIDH-OMCT partnership, sheds […]

Human Rights Watch – Twenty-one years ago today, 120 countries adopted the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), creating a permanent international court to hold perpetrators of the world’s gravest crimes to account. […]

ICC The Afghanistan-Transitional Justice Coordination Group (TJCG), Armanshahr/OPEN ASIA, and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), (collectively the “Organisations”) respectfully submit these submissions pursuant to the ‘Decision on the “Request for Leave to Submit […]