Strengthening the Human Rights Network in Afghanistan

From 2002 to 2014 The Afghanistan Civil Society and Human Rights Network (CSHRN) grew to become the largest operating civil society network in Afghanistan, with 164 member organisations covering 26 of 34 provinces in the country.

During this period, the Danish Institute for Human Rights was involved incapacity development of the network, as well as supported CSHRN in their work to promote human rights and shape a human rights culture in the country.

Raising awareness on human rights

We supported the development of seven educational manuals, twelve analytic symposiums and four annual reports on human rights. With our support, the CSHRN executed several campaigns on international humanitarian law, eradication of domestic violence and transitional justice. During the core of our cooperation CSHRN aired a series of radio programmes on human rights, aimed at broad population of Afghanistan to better know and understand their rights.

Today, the main objectives of CSHRN is to provide capacity building for human rights organisations, raise awareness on human rights to citizens, provide feedback to political agendas, to monitor human rights violations and to release statements on the human rights situation in Afghanistan.