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Publications series

Dr Sima Samar: “Human rights have a value now in Afghanistan”

Dr Sima Samar is the current Chairperson of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission. A doctor by training, Samar spent a decade in exile in Pakistan.

Friday 31 January 2014

Rahnavard Zaryab: “We are not free to think here”

unveiling Afghanistan Campaign: Rahnavard Zaryab is an influential Afghan writer and scholar. He was imprisoned during the Taraki era in 1978/79. His work has brought him into extensive contact with democratic countries. He advocates for democracy and ideological freedom in Afghanistan.

Thursday 30 January 2014

Humaira Qaderi: “When are you going to burn yourself?”

Dr Humaira Qaderi is a writer and women’s rights activist. She was a teenager during the years of the Taliban, when girls were forbidden from going to school and libraries were closed.

Wednesday 29 January 2014

Afghan children are ‘rented’ out to beggars

By Kreshma Fakhri Begging on the street has spawned a vicious practice: beggar mafia are renting children in Kabul, and drugging them with opium to ply their trade. Afghan cities are seeing Pakistani beggars in […]

Tuesday 7 January 2014

General Recommendation No. 30 on women in conflict prevention, confict and post-conflict situations

OHCHR General recommendations made by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women    

Thursday 28 November 2013

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

The preamble is the introductory part of the Protocol which sets out the object and purpose of the Protocol. It refers to the principles of equality and non-discrimination as embodied in the UN Charter, the […]

Tuesday 19 November 2013

118-119th Goftegu Public Debate, Armanshahr’s Celebration: 118 Goftegus and 100,000 published books – Report

Mr Rooholamin Amini (Deputy director of Armanshahr Foundation), moderator of Armanshahr’s 118th Goftegu public debate that was held on 3 July 2013, presented a report on the activities of Armanshahr in the past seven years as follows.

Saturday 17 August 2013

76th Goftegu Public Debate: Building the present and future of Children

Speakers: Ms. Fatana Ishaq Gailani (Founder and chairwoman of Afghanistan Women Council), M. Mohammad Sarwar Hosseini (Deputy-head of Literacy and Informal Training at the Ministry of Education), M. Mohammad Aslam Jawadi (Director of Sociology Department of Kateb University), Ms. Safa Mazari (Director of orphanages, Ministry of Labour and Social affairs)

Friday 9 August 2013

Armanshahr Human rights and civil society periodical, Issues 29-30, March-April 2013 published

Armanshahr (a periodical on human rights and civil society), Issue 29-30 published Special issue on Women’s Film Festival – 8 March March – April 2013 In this issue: First International Women’s Film Festival – Women’s […]

Thursday 1 August 2013

Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women

The General Assembly, Recognizing the urgent need for the universal application to women of the rights and principles with regard to equality, security, liberty, integrity and dignity of all human beings, Noting that those rights […]

Monday 22 July 2013