Simorgh Peace Prize

OPEN ASIA To mark 25th Anniversary, Human Rights Week – 8th edition Of War and Collective Memory, 25 NOV-11 DEC. 5 Dialogues | 2 Workshops | 10 Films | 5 New Books | Photo Exhibition | Poetry evening | International Simorgh Peace Prize Call (7 th edition) Herat-Paris-Dushanbe-London

OPEN ASIA|Armanshahr Foundation celebrates 7th annual Human Rights Week In the past seven years, OPEN ASIA|Armanshahr Foundation has been celebrating the Human Rights Week during the first ten days of December to mark the International […]

OPEN ASIA | Armanshahr  was established as an independent organisation 24 years ago. This organisation has concentrated its human rights work mainly on countering war and militarism, promoting justice, defending victims, combating systematic violence against […]

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.

Armanshahr|OPEN ASIA 5th Simorgh Peace prize: 2,000 children from Herat, Kabul and Kandahar provinces run a campaign to raise their voice for peace and an end to the ongoing conflict which has gripped the Afghans over the past 27 years.

For this edition of the 5th International Simorgh Peace Prize, five schools from Kabul, Herat and Kandahar provinces were selected as the awardees of the lapis lazuli Simorgh Peace Statute.

5th consecutive year, Armanshahr’s HR Week in Afghanistan: Literature’s role & responsibility in promoting HR culture, Simorgh Int. Peace Prize in Ideal City of Children, “Afghanistan; Unveiling a Never-Ending Tale”, a new documentary, Q & A: Afghanistan & ICC.

Read New bilingual issue of Armanshahr Human Rights and Civil SocietyNewsletter, Special SIMORGH PEACE PRIZE, No.206-208 (YEAR IX)

Call for submission of works to the 5th Simorgh International Peace Prize. This round the Prize follows the motto “My ideal city” and is concerned with poems, stories and drawings by children and adolescents of Afghanistan. Deadline 22 OCT 2017.

The statutes of 4th Simorgh International Peace Prize were awarded on Human Rights Day (10th December 2015) in the context of the Human Rights Week and simultaneously with the 19th anniversary of Armanshahr’s establishment.