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Armanshahr Human Rights & Civil Society newsletter – issue 67 year VI
Armanshahr Human Rights & Civil Society newsletter – issue 67 year VI
Saturday 3 May 2014Sonia Iqbal: “We have not planned for economic recession, but it is sitting on our doorstep”
Sonia Iqbal is the executive director and a shareholder of PAHNA Group (a Kabul-based communications and management firm) as well as the president of Afghanistan 1400 Party, a civic-political youth organisation.
Friday 2 May 2014Bakht Mohammad Bakhtiar: “We will return to the dark days of the past if we are not careful”
Bakht Mohammad Bakhtiar is the Director of the Social Sciences Centre of Afghanistan. He studied for his master’s degree in law in Kiev under the Soviet rule and became a member of the Academy of Sciences.
Thursday 1 May 2014Peaceful Protest against the passing of the weak draft of mineral law by the Wolusi Jirga
Source: Heinrich Boll Stiftung The Wolusi Jirga of Afghanistan is about to vote on the mineral law of the country inside parliament, while Afghan civil society specially the Natural Resources Monitoring Network (NRMN) has been […]
Wednesday 30 April 2014Hasina Safi: “One new phenomenon is the men who believe in women and their power”
Hasina Safi is the Director of the Afghan Women’s Network, an organization of women boasting 5,000 members and 65 member organizations. Safi was featured in the 2011 documentary about the role of women in the war and post-conflict process in Afghanistan.
Wednesday 30 April 2014Rafi Behroozian: “I strongly support the media revolution”
Rafi Behroozian was born in Herat in 1978 and lived in Iran as a migrant for 23 years. He returned to Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban. In the last decade he has been a musician and audiovisual media activist. He is the founder of the Daf Cultural Centre.
Tuesday 29 April 2014Seifuddin Sayhoun: “It was a woman who decided my fate”
Professor Seifuddin Sayhoun was one of the principal planners for the Ministry of Women’s Affairs strategy on economic rights and the security of women. He studied economics at university and started teaching at Kabul University’s Economics School in 1994.
Monday 28 April 2014Report: Women’s role in Afghanistan’s future – taking stock of achievements and continued challenges
This report assesses the overall situation of women in Afghanistan across key sectors, acting as a follow-up to the report published by the World Bank in 2005 entitled, Afghanistan: National Reconstruction and Poverty Reduction – Role of Women in Afghanistan’s Future.
Saturday 26 April 2014Torpikai Nawabi: “Popular uprisings against the Taliban prove that the people do not want them to rule Afghanistan anymore”
Torpikai Nawabi is an elected Member of the Kabul Provincial Council. She has an MA in Administration and Management from India. She has been a long-term activist in favour of women’s rights.
Friday 25 April 2014Armanshahr Human Rights & Civil Society newsletter – issue 66 year VI
Armanshahr Human Rights & Civil Society newsletter – issue 66 year VI
Thursday 24 April 2014
