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Occasionally periods of social regression and progressive developments occur simultaneously. After all, among the many catastrophic reports emerging from the Arab world there are also a few glimmers of hope – for women.

Qantara – In Germany, refugees from Syria, Iraq and Yemen may end up living next door to compatriots who were on the other side in the civil war. How can those who have fled their homeland also […]

More than half of the women cited in AWID’s 2017 tribute to female activists were murdered for defending their rights.

In Africa, more than 80% of countries have abolished the death penalty in law or in practice, with only 10 countries executing within the past decade, said FIDH and DITSHWANELO in their joint study,

New edition of Armanshahr/OPEN ASIA Human Rights and Civil society Newsletter No. 211

The Secretariat of the 5th edition of the  International Women’s Film Festival – Herat requests filmmakers to send in short or long feature and documentary films.

Syrian writer Morris Ayek is critical of those who claim that when it comes to human rights, Islamic countries are “culturally distinct” from the rest of the world. In his opinion, this discourse directly contradicts the universality of Islamic values

       Glacial comedy … Happy End. Photograph: Films Du Losange The Guardian – It hardly needs saying that the adjective in the title is about as accurate as the one in Haneke’s Funny Games. Happy […]

New edition of Armanshahr/OPEN ASIA Human Rights and Civil society Newsletter No. 209-210

At the collapse of the Soviet Union, Western pundits celebrated the dramatic reshaping of regional interactions in Southern Eurasia to come, with the hope of seeing Russia lose its influence…