Afghan Women's Network
The constitution of Afghanistan and other implementing laws emphasize women's rights and their roles in the society. Since women in Afghanistan are in need of support, hence beside the governmental bodies, there are other non-governmental organizations across the country working for women's rights to address the problems, challenges and recommendations for them.
"After the United Nation Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, in which a group of women from various organizations and agencies of the United Nation participated; the theory to form a network for the Afghan women's cooperation and integration has developed. With inspire from women's movement in different part of the world; finally, in 1995 participants (women) of the conference decided to establish Afghan Women Network (AWN)." (source: http://awn-af.net/index.php/cms/download/902)
Afghan Women's Network as an umbrella network of 130 NGOs and 3500 individual members believe in joint advocacy towards building a prosperous nation. Women, Peace and Security; Women's Political Participation and Leadership; and Women's Social & Legal Protection are the main strategic areas of the Network, which implements its activities through advocacy and lobbying, networking and coordination, and capacity building departments. It is one of the largest civil society organization envisions Afghanistan in which women and men live in a fair and discrimination free society. AWN also facilitates opportunities for members in order to involve women in mainstreaming of Afghan society welfare to utilize all the rights and obligations equally.
The Afghan Women's Network Newsletter, which prints monthly basis, is a source of finding topics on women's rights issues, AWN's activities, researches, press statements and other relevant issues with two national languages (Dari and Pashtu) and English. As Chief Editor of this Newsletter I collect and analyse information about AWN special events in order to write news stories for publication, gather and verify factual information regarding project development and implementation through interview, observation, and research. We write newsletters according to the prescribed editorial style and format standards, take photographs, edit, appear on meetings and conferences programme when conducting taped or filmed interviews or narration, interviewing the internal AWN responsive authorities, donors and external parties more to develop the Newsletter.
Mohammad Elias Hatimi
