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Azita Rafa’t: “It was the day when 10,000 rockets hit the city”

Unveiling Afghanistan Campaign: Azita Rafa’at is a human and women’s rights activist from Badghis province. She was a people’s representative in the Emergency Loya Jirga to elect the transitional administration in 2002

Tuesday 4 February 2014

Kaweh Jobran: “Allow me not to wish for my daughter”

Unveiling Afghanistan Campaign: Kaweh Jobran is a professor in literature in the State University in Kapisa province and works as a journalist with national and international media based from Kabul. A published poet and essayist, he is an active blogger and influential young thinker.

Monday 3 February 2014

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

88th Goftegu Public Debate: Justice and Rights: One decade of experience and planning for the future

Invitation to 88th Goftegu Public Debate: Justice and Rights: One decade of experience and planning for the future

Monday 12 August 2013