Politics

Nearly half of the country that is caught between the two sides of the seesawing conflict. The constant fighting has deprived these rural Afghans of most of the improvements — schools and institutions — at the center of concerns over peace negotiations.

In Bishkek, protesters gathered on the central square demanding measures to reduce the Chinese presence.

The report by the Volunteer Activists Institute about the current situation of civil society in Iran, challenges and restrictions, and its prospects, covering a variety of Iranian civil society organizations (CSOs) such as women’s NGOs, environmental NGOs, youth NGOs, social pathology NGOs, charities, workers unions, and journalists’ associations.

This election showed us the good, the bad, and the ugly of today’s Afghanistan – the good was the bravery of citizens who defy widespread violence to vote; the bad was the sheer mismanagement of the electoral process by the authorities, which created an environment conducive to fraud; the ugly was the Taliban’s deplorable violence and terror against civilians.

Despite increasing attacks by various terrorist groups, a lack of genuine vetting of candidates, and the fact that the terms of the ongoing high level “peace settlements” with the Taliban remain unknown to the public, Afghans continue to show they have faith in the election process notably an independent young generation of civil society members and women

NOVASTAN  Novastan reprend et traduit un article initialement publié par le média kazakh en ligne, 365info.kz. Le 12 août dernier, une délégation des Talibans est venue discuter à Tachkent sur l’invitation des autorités ouzbèkes. Un évènement […]

Independent Robert Fisk / @indyvoices This is not something new – but it is something we too often forget How do you organise a successful genocide – in Turkish Armenia a century ago, in Nazi-occupied Europe in […]

FIDH-Armansnahr/OPEN ASIA : The EU must use the upcoming human rights dialogue with Afghanistan to call on the government to address human rights violations, prioritize accountability, and strengthen the rule of law.

Abbas Attar, an Iranian-born photographer with Magnum who documented cataclysmic events throughout the world, including the Iranian revolution, and developed a particular interest in the role of religion in them, died in Paris. He was 74

Al-Marsad has published a book on the forgotten occupation of the Syrian Golan, telling the story of the native Syrian population who continue to suffer after fifty years of occupation by Israel. In Forgotten Occupation: Life […]