The conference was so informative, so impressive and so fruitful.
Abdul Ali Faiq
Thank you to all those who joined us in the second ECHRA Conference today at Goldsmiths University. As you may know we gather here at Goldsmiths each year to explore and debate issues of Human Rights in Afghanistan and the Diaspora.
I would like to have a big thank you to the Chairpersons of our event, Mrs Claire Rimmer (European Council for Refugee Exiles) and Miss Mariam Aman (BBC Persian Afghanistan Unit), for making our Conference a great success.
I would also like to thank our Speakers:
Anne Bathily from ECRE, Farzana Moqadas, Arzu Qaderi, Sonia Wahedy, Saeed Ikram Tahiri, Abdul Ali Faiq, Marwa Sobhan, Sarajuddin Isar, Abdul Ahmadi, Arzo Naubahar, Sima Azad, Shabnam and Sheekeba Nasimi who made a great contributions by raising the issues concerning our community here and in Afghanistan.
As you are aware that our Campaign currently has no funds available, and therefore we were very lucky to use Ian Gulland Lecture theatre (Goldsmiths University) free of charge, and have professional filming by David Jones free of charge.
Purpose of the event was to present the issues faced by Afghanistani women in both the UK and Afghanistan and to also build our ideas on how we could tackle them. Fortunately everyone contributed to the Conference with very inspirational speeches and hopefully we can implement these in the near future.
For those people unable to be with us, we will have a report written of the outcomes of the conference soon. Recordings of key parts of the event will be made available on our website and YouTube soon.
Keep on using your skills whether it's in your personal or professional lives, and carry on campaigning.
"A good opportunity to learn and exchange views, particularly on key aspects of Afghan women empowerment concerns such as education, health, employment and domestic violence."
Sarajuddin Isar
Agenda
10:00 Registration and Coffee Reception
10.30 Welcome and Introduction by Dr. Nasimi
11.00: Afghanistani women in the UK and human rights
Speakers ECHRA
11:30: Women’s rights in Afghanistan today, challenges and progress.
12.15 – 12.30 Discussion
12.30 – 1.30 Lunch
1.30 The UK Response.
2.00- Afghanistani Women: the refugee experience in Europe (European Council for Refugee Exile)
2.30 - The NGO Response.
3.00 – 3.30 Panel discussion (3 of speakers)
3.30 Coffee break
03.45: Working groups to formulate ideas for ECHRA: campaign and projects
Violence against women/ sexual exploitation/ forced marriages
Education and employment
Health
Setting up women self help groups
4.30 Feedback to plenary and discussion
5.00 Guest Speaker
5.15 Conclusion
You can download our document on the European Campaign for Human Rights in Afghanistan here:
Latest Events
The European Human Rights Campaign in Netherlands
The opening Ceremony of our new office in Netherlands is on Saturday 20th of April 2013
On the second of April 2013 UK’s Defence Ministry held a meeting to talk about the security and legal rights of Afghan translators who served in Afghanistan. The European Campaign for Human Rights in Afghanistan and other civil organisation were present at the meeting and stressed that UK should give residency visa to those whom their parents had lost lives during serving with PRT and NATO army and demanded a compensation for disabled people in Afghanistan.
For more information about the event's address and the agenda of the ceremony please contact the representative of the Campaign in the Netherlands Mr. Ahmadi and Mr. Taheri:
Mr Taheri: 0647020157
taherise@hotmail.com
Mr. Ahmadi: 0626925432
ahmadi_92@hotmail.com
Dr Noorulhaq Nasimi
Director of the European Campaign for Human Rights in Afghanistan.
I truly enjoyed, learned a lot and furthermore I met beautiful inspiring strong women.
Abdul Ahmadi
It was great event and a good chance for women to put across there point of view.
Fahim Ghorbandi
It was a beautiful event and I learnt alot about Women from Afghanistan.
Maria Saavedra
European Campaign for Human Rights in Afghanistan, Unit A11 Hatcham Park Mews, New Cross SE14 5QA. Tel: 02073580222 – 07414993450, 07576989225
Email: nooralhaqnasimi@btinternet.com
Registered as "European Campaign for Human Rights in Afghanistan” Company No.7609880
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