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Rights & Democracy Network
Women in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in conflict zones around the world are being used as weapons of war through rape…
Aung San Suu Kyi was democratically elected in Burma in 1990, and has been detained ever since…
At least 18 Aboriginal peoples in the world are in danger of becoming extinct…
A quarter of Zimbabwe’s population of 13 million people is living in exile…
This has got to stop! Join a delegation of the Rights & Democracy Student Network, our unique student programme: contact your university student delegation. You can then start raising awareness of international human rights and democracy within your community and support Rights & Democracy and its partners in the South!
For more information about the Student Network, please visit its website here.
Coalition for Women's Human Rights in Conflict Situations
The main focus of the Coalition’s work is to promote the adequate prosecution of perpetrators of crimes of gender violence in transitional justice systems based in Africa, in order to create precedents that recognize violence against women in conflict situations and help find ways to obtain justice for women survivors of sexual violence.
A Measure of Equality for Afghan Women: Rights in Practice
In Afghanistan, Rights & Democracy's commitment to women's rights continues. Our work includes support for Afghanistan's family law reform process and the implementation of a national marriage contract, along with a wide-reaching programme to promote awareness of women's rights.
Rights & Democracy's Kabul office opened in 2002 and is run by a staff of 17 Afghan employees, including seven women. Rights & Democracy's Afghan staff work in six provinces in Afghanistan: Kabul, Kandahar, Herat, Nangarhar, Balkh and Kunduz.
Rights in Practice is a project funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).
Deployment for Democratic Development (DDD)
Funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and co-managed by the Institute of Public Administration (IPAC) and Rights & Democracy, DDD sends Canadian democratic development experts to Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East/Maghreb in response to requests for assistance from CIDA partner countries.
