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Self-representation of women in court is a key technique because we found out that the numbers of women who want to get justice in court are many more than the number of advocates we have

The international gathering where countries report on their country’s progress on women’s rights and gender equality will focus on prevention of violence against women and girls.

By Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service* Rohingya Genocide Day 25 Aug 2018 Human Wrongs Watch – 27 August 2018 — In February 2018 I participated in a Nobel Women’s […]

Tunisian authorities are confiscating and searching the phones of men they suspect of being gay and pressuring them to take anal tests and to confess to homosexual activity, Human Rights Watch said today.

The conviction of former Khmer rouge leaders for forced marriages & sexual crimes stemming from them and their qualification as crimes against humanity set an important precedent in international law. The court’s verdict ensured that the perpetrators of forced marriages were properly punished & victims received justice.”Guissou Jahangiri, FIDH Vice President

“After a preliminary examination that lasted a decade, an additional year of waiting for victims is unacceptable.” Guissou Jahangiri, FIDH Vice-President and Armanshahr/OPEN ASIA Executive Director

5th round of Simorgh Peace Prize: thirty best works of Afghanistan’s children is published over a 30-day campaign to expose their clear voices celebrating peace and rejecting war.

The HRD World Summit 2018 brings together a group of 150 HRDs, from around the world. The Summit is a unique space to convene marginalised groups, including ethnic & religious minorities, diverse gender identity activists, indigenous peoples & other defenders who are geographically remote from centres of power, media …

OPEN ASIA/ Armanshahr joins hundreds of organisations and personalities calling on the Government of Spain to undertake the necessary steps for the recovery of the Universal Jurisdiction of Spain. The recent political change produced in Spain must necessarily bring, is the reversal of setbacks in terms of human rights, recovering, the lost ground.

Many countries with Sharia-derived legislation criminalize consensual sexual relations outside of marriage. This criminalization creates important barriers to women’s access to protection against rape, as documented widely over the last two decades.