Joint Press Release Kashmiri human rights defender Khurram Parvez arbitrarily arrested and denied due process rights Bangkok-Dhaka-Geneva-Madurai-Paris-Quezon City, September16, 2016 Our organisations strongly condemn today’s arbitrary arrest of Kashmiri human rights defender Mr. Khurram Parvez, and call for his immediate and unconditional release. On September 16 at 12:30 am, police officers came to Khurram Parvez’s home in Srinagar in Indian-administered Kashmir, […]
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DISAPPEARED BUT NOT FORGOTTEN AFAD Commemorates the International Day of the Disappeared 2016
30 August 2016 AFAD Secretariat Resources Manila, 30 August 2016 – On this day, the International Day of the Disappeared (IDD), the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) pays tribute to the thousands of disappeared people in Asia and all over the world, and to their families. This day was first commemorated 36 years ago […]
Statement of the International Board of FIDH: Put an immediate end to enforced disappearances
29/08/2016 PRESS RELEASE International Justice On this International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, FIDH and its member organisations call for an end to involuntary and enforced disappearances around the world, and for justice for victims and their families. The newly-elected International Board of FIDH called at its first session (which took place right […]
Greek academic and activist Dimitris Christopoulos elected FIDH President
27/08/2016 PRESS RELEASE South Africa(Johannesburg) Today Dimitris Christopoulos was elected President of FIDH. He succeeds Iranian lawyer Karim Lahidji who headed the international human rights NGO for the last three years. The vote was held during the 39th FIDH Congress in Johannesburg where its 178 member organisations […]
Joint Statement: BANGLADESH: Impunity and corporate interests end lives and livelihoods
April 9, 2016 Bangladesh police have once again killed protestors. This time four out of a few hundred villagers who protested on 4 April 2016 have been killed. The farmers were protesting against acquisition of their agricultural lands without consent or adequate compensation, for the purpose of establishing a coal-fired power plant at Gondamara Village […]
আন্তর্জাতিক নারী দিবস উপলক্ষে আলোচনা সভা: নারীর অধিকার ও মর্যাদা প্রতিষ্ঠায় ঐক্যবদ্ধ আন্দোলন গড়ে তুলুন
০৮ মার্চ ২০১৬ প্রেস বিজ্ঞপ্তি আজ ৮ মার্চ। আন্তর্জাতিক নারী দিবস উপলক্ষে অধিকার, নারীগ্রন্থ প্রবর্তনা ও স্বাস্থ্য আন্দোলন যৌথভাবে নারীগ্রন্থ প্রবর্তনায় এক আলোচনা সভার আয়োজন করে। লালমাটিয়া মহিলা কলেজের অধ্যাপক (অব:) তাসনীম ফেরদৌসী জুলি’র সভাপতিত্বে আয়োজিত সভায় বক্তব্য রাখেন উবিনিগ এর নির্বাহী পরিচালক ফরিদা আখতার, অধিকার এর জেন্ডার বিশেষজ্ঞ তাসকিন ফাহমিনা, শ্রমবিকাশ কেন্দ্রের সমন্বয়ক সীমা […]
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