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Biden’s Challenge: Redeeming a US Role for Human Rights

Human Rights Watch – World Report 2021 Introductory remark by Kenneth Roth.   After four years of a president who was indifferent and often hostile to human rights, the November 2020 election of Joe Biden […]

Wednesday، 27 January، 2021

Interview: Hard-Won Victories for Refugees in Greece – How Ten Years of Advocacy and Incremental Changes Add Up

Humans Rights Watch by Amy Braunschweiger and Eva Cossé In Greece, a recent high-profile court ruling and policy change mark momentous human rights victories for migrants and children. On October 7, an Athens court ruled that the […]

Tuesday، 26 January، 2021

The Other Pandemic: Fighting Inequality as We Beat Back Covid

Human Rights Watch By Lena Simet and Komala Ramachandra and Sarah Saadoun At the dawn of 2020, our world was already in crisis. High and rising economic inequality meant that someone born with few resources could see their basic human […]

Tuesday، 19 January، 2021

International conference: Of War and Collective Memory

International conference: Of War and Collective Memory. In the shadow of amnesia:  the struggle with power is the struggle of memory with oblivion. 196th Conference/dialogue held in framework of OPEN ASIA’s 8th Edition of Human rights week marking 25th anniversary celebration year.

Wednesday، 2 December، 2020

“Words matter because they allow us to keep our eyes open” FIDH launch conference of the Glossary on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence

The Glossary on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence, from A-to Z was presented in a conference on the occasion of the International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women and the start of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence. The A-to Z sheds light on 61 essential terms on SGBV.

Thursday، 26 November، 2020

Presenting the Mobile Film Festival in framework of Human Rights Week 2020

Mobile Film Festival   Open Asia – Armanshahr Foundation is pleased to bring to your attention in the framework of its Human Rights Week (8th edition) the 2020 Mobile Film Festival, focusing this year on […]

Tuesday، 24 November، 2020

Release Conference – Glossary on sexual and gender-based violence, from A-to-Z -Online event

FIDH launches the “Glossary on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence, from A-to-Z in a webinar with experts on Wednesday, 25 November 2020.

Monday، 23 November، 2020

TOURAN KHANOM COMING TO VIRTUAL CINEMA 

  Venera Films  partnering with Diaspora arts Connection PRESENTING TOURAN KHANOM / An Iranian Film Coming to Virtual Cinema 11/20 November 20, 2020 PRE-ORDER NOW HERE” Turn Great Grief to Great Work” Directed by Rakhshan Banietemd & […]

Sunday، 22 November، 2020

Femicide Watch call 2020

UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Dubravka Simonovic, in 2015, to establish a “femicide watch” and/or observatories on gender related killings of women,

Thursday، 12 November، 2020

Innovating to combat violence against women in the context of COVID19

Webinar exchange between women’s rights defenders from France, Mexico, South Africa, and Tunisia, four countries in which feminist organisations reacted quickly to the exacerbation of violence against women linked to the COVID-19 crisis.

Monday، 17 August، 2020