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Issues

United for Baha’i Children Human Rights

Monday 14 October 2013

Ending Child Marriage

The Afghan Women’s Writing Project is participating in a worldwide campaign this month to end early marriage in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and other countries where girls are forced by their parents to marry when they are as young as ten years old.

Monday 14 October 2013

Just and modern societies cannot be founded on killing: abolish the death penalty!

“Long live death!” is how Franco’s militias sometimes celebrated their victories during the 1930s Spanish civil war. Yes, there have always been – and remain – those States that champion death over life, barbarism over reason. And what better symbol of this outmoded ideology than the death penalty?

Thursday 10 October 2013

20th Anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

Wednesday 9 October 2013

Women Rights

Short film on Women. Justice delayed is justice denied.

Tuesday 8 October 2013

ADRA Animated Short: Human Rights

Tuesday 8 October 2013

Release of death lists stirs anger and grief in Afghanistan

By Rod Nordland New York Times KABUL, Afghanistan » So many people were buried alive by bulldozers in the barren fields around the Pul-e-Charkhi Prison on Kabul’s outskirts that guilty soldiers later said it was like […]

Tuesday 1 October 2013

123rd Goftegu Public Debate (year VII): Women debate peace – Invitation

123rd Goftegu Public Debate (year VII): Women debate peace

Tuesday 1 October 2013

April 8, 2013: Top 10 reasons to support girls’ education

Madonna announced last week she plans to sell a 1921 cubist painting, “Three Women,” by Fernand Léger to help raise money for girls’ education projects in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The singer said she wanted to “trade something valuable for something invaluable.”

Thursday 26 September 2013

28 Afghan human rights, women’s rights and civil society organisations and networks publish today an open letter to Ms. Navi Pillay, UN Human Rights Commissioner

28 Afghan human rights, women’s rights & civil society organisations & networks publish today an open letter to Ms. Navy Pillay, UN Human Rights Commissioner & draw her attention to serious human rights violations & offer detailed recommendations to the Gvt. of Afghanistan & the ICC.

Wednesday 25 September 2013