Backlash

Part of a series of interviews recorded at WLP International with WLP partners following transnational partners meeting, September 2015 (for use in Human Rights webinar). 

Mahnaz Afkhami, Founder of WLP, gives an overview of the difficulties of civil organizing, and discusses women's organizations in the Global South in context of rising authoritarianism, fundamentalism, and instability.

We at the Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP) join the many organizations and individuals calling for the United Nations Security Council and the international community to take appropriate measures to safeguard the human rights and humanitarian needs of the people of Afghanistan.