Armanshahr Campaigns
Somaya Ramesh: “Things will get worse if the government sacrifices human rights for political interests”
Somaya Ramesh is the director of the Nawandishan Social and Cultural Foundation and an independent candidate in the provincial council’s elections in Herat.
Friday 4 April 2014Daoud Naji: “Afghanistan is plagued with repeated cultural rupture”
Daoud Naji, a graduate of Persian language and literature from Balkh University, previously taught as an Assistant Professor at his alma mater. With the arrival of the Taliban, he migrated to Pakistan. He is now living and working as a journalist in London.
Thursday 3 April 2014Sediqa Balkhi: “He said I would die if I went to school again”
Sediqa Balkhi has served two-terms as a Senator on the Meshrano Jirga [Senate]. She was elected Chair of the Women’s Affairs Committee in the last Senate and is currently Chair of the Civil Society and Human Rights Committee.
Wednesday 2 April 2014Hussain Fakhri: “The acts we see as ‘violations’, they see as exercising their rights”
Lieutenant General Sayed Ghulam Hussain Fakhri is the Director-General of the High Office of Anti-Corruption. He joined the Police Academy immediately after graduating from high school and later became a Professor of the Academy.
Tuesday 1 April 2014Fawzia Koofi: “I am afraid to see the world and its progress from behind a chador again”
Fawzia Koofi grew up in a traditional polygamist family with seven wives. Her mother tried to abandon her for being born a girl. Her father was a Member of Parliament for 25 years and was assassinated by the Mujahideen when she was just 4 years old.
Tuesday 1 April 2014Malek Setiz: “We must move with the times”
Mr Malek Setiz is an international relations adviser to the Foreign Ministry of Afghanistan. He sought refuge in Denmark after the civil wars and has been living there for the past 20 years and working for the Danish Institute for Human Rights.
Monday 31 March 2014Malika Suraya Afghanyar: “We want to work, to think, to walk, to be present, to speak”
Malika Suraya Afghanyar is a filmmaker. She is studying film directing and writing at the Fine Arts Department of Kabul University.
Friday 28 March 2014Awtar Singh Khalsa: “They gave the Hindus and Sikhs a place for rubbish disposal as a place to live”
Awtar Singh Khalsa is the President of the National Committee of Hindus and Sikhs of Afghanistan and the head of Kabul’s Committee for Hindu worship centres. Singh served as the Sikh representative to the Loya Jirga, and was appointed as a senator in 2004.
Thursday 27 March 2014Hengama Anwari: “10 years is only a drop in the ocean that is the process of changing a society”
Hengama Anwari is a Commissioner on the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission and the founder of the Women and Children’s Legal Research Foundation.
Wednesday 26 March 2014Mujib Mehrdad: “My sisters are no different to my brothers”
Mujib Mehrdad is a Professor at Al-Biruni University, a writer, and a poet. He is the director of Porsesh [Question] magazine.
Tuesday 25 March 2014
