We are working to ensure that survivors of violence are fully cognizant of their rights to protection and compensation under the...

Calling upon the Afghanistan Government to Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on Elimination of Discrimination Against women...

When we think of torture or inhuman, degrading and cruel treatment and punishment, we typically think of acts committed by States against...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has just published a new toolkit for lawyers and other professionals on strengthening medico-legal...

I call Kashmir, the land of juxtapositions, where one can see splendor existing simultaneously with the unpleasant – be it the Dal Lake...

Over the years various resolutions have been passed: Resolution 1820; 1325 (2000) and 1889 (2009) on Women and Peace and Security;...

Human Rights is a loaded term – those who have it do not feel the need for it, those who don’t, make a claim to such rights which are...

Unlike other children my age, I did not grow up listening to stories from myDida (maternal grandmother). Oddly enough, Dida, an avid...