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Women's Rights
The Women's Rights in Afghanistan Fund
In the summer of 2002, Rights & Democracy established the Women’s Rights in Afghanistan Fund, with funding from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). Grants from this Fund are made to grassroots women’s organizations throughout Afghanistan, with the aim of supporting women’s human rights and peacebuilding efforts. This is a small, but crucial, effort to counter the effects of decades of denial of human rights to women and to bolster Afghanistan’s chances for a lasting peace.
Projects supported by the Fund include:
- Women’s rights educational projects, including legal education
- Leadership training for women
- Literacy training for adult women and girls
- Skill-building and economic opportunities for women
- Capacity-building and peacebuilding initiatives
- Women’s participation and mobilization in political processes, such as Loya Jirgas, democratic elections, and constitutional or judicial reforms
- Healthcare awareness for women
- Networking and information-sharing
- Lobbying for gender-mainstreaming in Afghan and international institutions
- Projects benefiting girl children and adolescent girls
- Projects benefiting Afghan refugee women
For more information about WRAF, please visit:
http://www.wraf.ca
