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Iran: Renewed attacks on the mandate of UN Special Rapporteur
FIDH and its member organization, the League for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran (LDDHI), express the disappointment at recent statements by Iranian high-level officials regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran’s persistent […]
Friday 30 August 2013Afghanistan’s Forest Cover Illegally Stripped Away
Environment News Service (ENS) By Zabihullah Ghazi KHOST CITY, Afghanistan, August 28, 2013 (ENS) – Once-green mountainsides across Afghanistan are still being stripped of their trees as the long-running process of deforestation continues. The head […]
Friday 30 August 2013Oral statement at CEDAW 55th session
The session considered reports from the following seven State parties: Afghanistan, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Cape Verde, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominican Republic, Serbia, and United Kingdom.
Thursday 29 August 2013Armanshahr Human rights and civil society periodical, Issues 33-34, August 2013 published
Armanshahr Human rights and civil society periodical, Issues 31-32, August 2013 published. Special issue on 7 years of Public GOFTEGU debates
Saturday 24 August 2013118-119th Goftegu Public Debate, Armanshahr’s Celebration: 118 Goftegus and 100,000 published books – Report
Mr Rooholamin Amini (Deputy director of Armanshahr Foundation), moderator of Armanshahr’s 118th Goftegu public debate that was held on 3 July 2013, presented a report on the activities of Armanshahr in the past seven years as follows.
Saturday 17 August 2013Members of FIDH Movement in prison
In various parts of the world human rights defenders brave legal harassment, arbitrary detention, ill treatment, torture and sometimes death, in seeking to secure freedom and dignity for all. In challenging serious abuses of State […]
Thursday 15 August 2013Seven Years and One Hundred and One Armanshahr Public Debates GOFTEGU
See the colorful Album of Seven Years and One Hundred and One Armanshahr Public Debates
Tuesday 9 July 2013Special dossier 9/11 – Antiterrorism and human rights: ten years of non-compatibility ?
Major trauma and worldwide geopolitical turmoil, 9/11 was also the beginning of a downward spiral in rights and freedoms. Many countries, including the democratic ones, starting with the United States and the United Kingdom […]
Friday 21 June 2013Bahrain: Concern over Human Rights Defenders Prosecuted and Sentenced to Prison
Geneva-Manama-Paris, 21 June 2013. In Bahrain, human rights defenders are being harassed, arbitrarily detained for months and ill-treated or tortured for their human rights work. The Bahrain Center for Human Rights and the Observatory for […]
Friday 21 June 2013An Outbreak of Reasonableness in Tehran: Top Ten Conclusions from Iran’s Early Election Returns
Source : Informed Comment THOUGHTS ON THE MIDDLE EAST, HISTORY AND RELIGION Juan Cole Update: Centrist Hassan Rouhani is Iran’s new president, having won a massive victory in a field of 6 candidates. Early election returns in […]
Friday 21 June 2013
