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Updated each year, the A to Z Guide to Assistance in Afghanistan aims to enhance general understanding of the array of actors, structures, and government processes related to aid and reconstruction efforts in the country.

Displaced Afghan females face significant constraints to accessing education, health and employment opportunities, according to a new report by NRC. 7 out of 10 say they have never attended school.

The mentally ill woman, her face covered in blood, rose to her feet and looked out across the mob. She pleaded. But these men meant to kill her. A kick sent her tumbling backward. In the courtyard of one of Kabul’s most famous shrines, men hurled stones at her and struck her with wooden planks.

Armanshahr/OPENASIA HR & Civil Society Newsletter SPECIAL ISSUE no.110 – Persian New Year NOWRUZ

The report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ahmed Shaheed. Submitted in accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 25/24 to the 28th session of the UN Human Rights Council in March 2015.

Amnesty International has launched a new manifesto demanding that governments around the world end their attempts to control and criminalize women’s and girls’ sexuality and choices.

Report on violence against women Violence against women is one of the most serious human rights issues in Afghanistan. These violence is imposed on women in various forms which are sometimes very harsh and brutal.

SPECIAL ISSUE no.108 – International Women’s Day year VII

Afghanistan’s new government should prosecute officials and commanders whose serious human rights abuses have long gone unpunished, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. US officials should press President Ashraf Ghani to take up justice for past abuses as a top priority during Ghani’s expected March 2015 visit to Washington, DC.

No immunity for heads of state or high ranking officials is fundamental to the object and purpose of the Rome Statute of the ICC: to bring to justice those most responsible for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.