This package contains country-specific resources for Afghanistan.
The collection includes publications, manuals, resources for trainers, documentary films, interviews with women leaders, international, national, and regional laws, event records, and oral histories.
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For country-specific resources, please see the links below:
Afghanistan's National Action Plan on UNSCR 1325-Women, Peace, and Security (document, English)
Published:Afghanistan's National Action Plan on UNSCR 1325 Women, Peace and Security, 2015-2022
Building Cross Border Coalitions for Gender Justice in Afghanistan and Iran (video, English)
Published:For CSW69, Women’s Learning Partnership co-hosted a panel highlighting key takeaways from launching a groundbreaking program empowering
Celebrating UN Women Panel 1: Our vision for UN Women: Views from the field (video, English)
Published:This video presents the first panel, response from Dr. Bachelet, and an audience Q&A at Celebrating UN Women: The Way Forward, a symposium
Challenges of Change Panel 2: Building a Culture of Peace in Multi-ethnic/Multi-religious Societies (video, English)
Published:This video presents the second panel discussion from Challenges of Change: Religion, Secularism & Rights, a WLP conference.
Citizenship Law of Afghanistan (document, Dari)
Published:Law of Citizenship in Afghanistan, 6 November 1936 in Dari.
Citizenship Law of Afghanistan (document, English)
Published:Law of Citizenship in Afghanistan, 6 November 1936
Clash or Consensus? Session 5: Recovering from Violent Conflict: Gender and Post-Conflict Reconstruction (video, English)
Published:The fifth panel on women's conditions in occupied Palestine, Afghanistan, and Sierra Leone from WLP's conference, Clash or Consensus?
Constitution of Afghanistan (document, English)
Published:The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan of 2004.
Constitution of Afghanistan (document, Pashto)
Published:The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan of 2004.
Frontline Diaries: Into the Forbidden Zone (Afghanistan) (video, English)
Published:Author Sebastian Junger and photographer Reza Deghati travel through war-torn, Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. National Geographic Explorer
Interviews on global issues facing women: empowerment, leadership, and information and communication technology (video, English)
Published:This video is a compilation of interview clips and footage segments from the Cultural Boundaries and Cyber Spaces conference in June 2000
Interviews with WLP Partners on organizational work and future plans (video, English and Arabic)
Published:Participants in the WLP Transnational Partners Convening (TPC), (Beirut, Lebanon, September 25-27, 2004): 12 interviewees describe the work
Leading to Change Panel 1: Breaking the Silence: Culture, Conflict, and Extremism (video, English)
Published:A panel discussion from WLP's symposium, Leading to Change: Eliminating Violence Against Women in Muslim Societies. Panelists from
Leading to Change: Eliminating Violence Against Women in Muslim Societies (brochure, English)
Published:This resource is the full event program of: Leading to Change: Eliminating Violence Against Women in Muslim Societies.
Mahnaz Afkhami interview on the history of civil organizing and women's organizations in the Global South in the context of rising authoritarianism, fundamentalism, and instability (video, English)
Published:Mahnaz Afkhami, Founder of WLP, gives an overview of the difficulties of civil organizing, and discusses women's organizations in the Global
Penal Code of Afghanistan (document, English)
Published:Government of the Republic of Afghanistan Penal Code, 7 October 1976.
Rights and Resistance: Supporting Calls for Freedom and Equality in Afghanistan and Iran (video, English)
Published:The calls for women’s human rights in Iran and Afghanistan require coordinated action by the international community. On March 10, as part
Sakena Yacoobi interview on education, leadership, and development in Afghanistan and Pakistan (video, English)
Published:Sakena Yacoobi, Executive Director of the Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL), speaks about her organization's work providing young Afghan
Sakena Yacoobi interview on information and communications technology for Afghan women (video, English)
Published:Sakena Yacoobi describes an Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) training program she founded to train Afghan women in the use
Sakena Yacoobi interview on the Afghan Institute of Learning and effective international aid (video, English)
Published:Sakena Yacoobi of the Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL) describes the work of her organization since the 2001 American invasion of
Shiite Personal Status Code of Afghanistan (document, English)
Published:Shiite Personal Status Code of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan of 2009.
Violence Against Women Prevention Law of Afghanistan (document, English)
Published:Law on Elimination of Violence Against Women of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan of 2009.
We Are All Afghanistan: Afghan Women Leaders Reflect on the Past and the Way Forward (video, English)
Published:On October 15, 2021, WLP hosted a discussion with Former Minister for Women’s Affairs in Afghanistan Sima Samar and Former Governor of
Women leaders discuss Challenges to Democracy Around the World, C-Span State of the World Forum (video, English)
Published:A panel discussion centers on women's roles in leadership and democratization, and the global women's movement in the period after the
Women's Human Rights in Afghanistan: A Dialogue on Next Steps (video, English)
Published:After working for decades to ensure their rights to education, freedom of movement, job opportunities, political representation and more