Advocacy-Afghanistan-2024

Afghanistan: Women, Peace & Security

Countering Gender Apartheid & Gender Persecution in Afghanistan

Since the Taliban’s seizure of power in 2021, women and girls in Afghanistan have been subject to ever more repressive limits on their rights and freedoms with more than 100 edicts specifically targeting their right to move freely, assemble publicly, access healthcare, education, or work, play sports, visit parks and salons. The situation that Afghan women and girls are facing is a serious women’s rights emergency that holds potentially dangerous precedent for the region, and indeed for women’s rights globally. Observers, activists, and legal scholars agree that the current regime in the country amounts to systematic gender persecution and gender apartheid. So our global advocacy initiative for 2024 poses an urgent call for coordinated global action on this women’s rights crisis, to bring key stakeholders around a unified movement for the codification of gender apartheid as a crime against humanity within international legal frameworks. .

Call for Coordinated Global Action for Accountability

UN 68th Commission on the Status of Women Official Side Event

Crimes Against Humanity in Afghanistan with a Gender Lens:

Strengthening Global Coordination

12th March 2024, 10:00-11:15 a.m EST

Conference Room 1, UN SECRETARIAT BUILDING, New York

Concept Paper

Speakers and Draft Agenda:

Opening Remarks

10:00 – 10:10 AM

Mr. Naseer Ahmad Faiq, Chargé d'Affaires of Permanent Mission of Afghanistan to the UN

H.E. Ambassador Vanessa Frazier, Permanent Representative of Malta to the United Nations

Panel

10:10 - 10:50 AM

Panel Discussion with Fiona Hodgson, Baroness Hodgson of Abinger CBE of the UK House of Lords

The Current Situation Facing Women and Girls in Afghanistan

Judge Najla Ayoubi, Chief of Coalition & Global Programs, Every Woman Treaty

Research Findings on Gender Apartheid

Yalda Royan, Women’s Regional Network Afghanistan Report Author
Dr. Saba Gul Khattak, Women’s Regional Network Pakistan Report Author
Ananya Kundu, Women’s Regional Network India Report Author

The Road Ahead for Coordinated Action against Gender Apartheid

Zarqa Yaftali, Director of Women and Children Legal Research Foundation

Interventions

10:50 - 11:05 AM

Delegations Interventions

Closing

11:10-11:15 AM

Ms. France Bognon, Esq., Interim CEO at the International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN)

Read Community Conversation Reports 2023

Watch Live:10.00 am – 11.15 am EDT
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Schedule

11:00 am Registration & Lunch

12:00 pm Welcome
Saba Ghori. Vice President Vital Voices
Global Network & Regional Engagement

12:05 pm Opening Remarks
Najla Ayubi
Board Member, Women’s Regional Network

12:05 pm Country Presentations

Yalda Royan – Author, WRN’s field research report, Suffering Unveiled: Afghan
Women’s Struggles Under the Taliban
Dr. Saba Gul Khattak – Author, WRN’s field research report, In the Shadow of the
Taliban Community Conversations with Afghan Women Refugees in Pakistan
Ananya Kundu – Founder, White Dot Solidarity Network, Co-Author WRN’s field
research report, Women Seeking Security, Asserting Agency – India Afghan
Refugee Community Conversations

12:35 pm Q&A and Closing Remarks

Nargis Nehan, Founder of Canada’s Feminist Forum for Afghanistan

1:00 pm Conclusion

WRN Community Conversations

Report Launch & Panel Discussion

CAMPAIGN AGAINST GENDER APARTHEID – A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY

Hear Afghan refugee women’s stories of gender persecution.

12 April 2024

Friday, 2:30 - 5.00 PM (There will be no live streaming of the Delhi event)

LECTURE ROOM 1

IIC ANNEXE, NEW DELHI

Opening Remarks

Syeda Hameed - Member, Women's Regional Network, Global Advisory Board

Report Launch:

Rita Manchanda, Ananya Kundu ( WRN Community Conversations Authors)

Afghan women share stories

Moderator: Rita Manchanda, Consultant, Peace & Security in South Asia.

Panelists:

Bilquees Daud, Assistant Professor, Jindal School of International Affairs, O.P Jindal Global University

Hamsa Vijayraghavan, ED, Migration & Asylum Project.

Nitya Ramakrishnan, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India