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NEW DOUBLE ISSUE Armanshahr HR & Civil Society NEWSLETTER No.189-190

UNESCO: Ensuring lifelong learning opportunities for all involves ensuring that diversity – including ethnic and linguistic diversity – is no cause for exclusion. Respecting cultural and linguistic rights will be essential for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Photo Gallery of 4th edition of the “International Women’s Film Festival – Herat” at Gardens of Babur, in Kabul on 19 October 2016 with hundreds of artists, filmmakers, officials & people from different walks of life.

NEW ISSUE Armanshahr HR & Civil Society NEWSLETTER No.187 – 188

NEW Armanshahr Bilingual Publication: My Realm; Poems and Photos by Women, Editors: Guissou Jahangiri & Rooholamin Amini, Photographers: Elaha Sahel, Masumeh Jafari, Mahshid Rasti

50 yrs after Forough Farrokhzad’s death, Ebrahim Golestan talks about his affair with the giant of Persian literature. “In every culture you have cultural icons, like Shakespeare in Britain. Farrokhzad was like that”.

Many millennials in Afghanistan are extraordinarily resilient, even hopeful. “The future of Afghanistan is going to be very bright,” says Zhala Sarmast, 17, a member of groundbreaking women’s cycling group that biked across the country to promote female independence.

NEW ISSUE Armanshahr HR & Civil Society NEWSLETTER No.186

IWPR: Zarmina, 36, lives in Herat city with her husband Juma Gul, a driver, and his second wife. “I got married to Juma Gul 17 years ago, but after six years he married another girl,” […]

The short fiction “Mirror” and the animation “Station” both directed by Vega Moqarabi from Afghanistan received the Special awards of the Jury.