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Afghan
Women Report: Achievements and Challenges One Year After
Bonn
Barnard
College to Host Day-long Conference Co-Sponsored By Women
for
Afghan Women, October 19, 2002
New
York, NY, September 18, 2002 – In an effort to address
recent attempts toward securing human rights for women in
Afghanistan, the New York chapter of Women for Afghan Women
(WAW) and Barnard’s Center for Research on Women will
co-sponsor a day-long conference exploring the successes
and challenges encountered by current Afghan leaders. The
conference, Afghan Women Report: Achievements and Challenges
One Year After Bonn, will begin with registration at
9 a.m. on Saturday, October 19, 2002 in the James Room,
4th floor Barnard Hall, 117th Street and Broadway.
Featured panelists include Loya Jirga Delegate Sara Amiyar,
activist and playwright Eve Ensler, Muslim feminist theologian
Riffat Hassan, journalist Fariba Nawa, co-founder of the
Humanitarian Organization for Orphans and Widows in Afghanistan
Fahima Vorgetts, School of Hope President Zolaykha Sherzad,
and Refugee Women in Development’s Sima Wali, among
many others.
In the year since the historic meetings in Bonn, Germany,
which led to the creation of the Interim Government in Afghanistan,
activists and policy-makers world-wide have been working
endlessly to ensure the involvement of women in every aspect
of the reconstruction of the Afghan government. The conference
at Barnard will feature a diverse group of panelists who
will report on the current state of affairs in Afghanistan
as well as discuss strategies for the security of human
rights, women’s health care, education, and an economic
and governance structure that would support women’s
rights and well-being.
The conference will also function as WAW’s second annual
conference. WAW is a collective of Afghan and non-Afghan
women from the New York area who are committed to ensuring
the human rights of Afghan women. Realizing that the inclusion
of women in all decision-making processes is a requirement
of a democratic society, WAW advocates for the representation
of women in all areas of life in Afghanistan: political,
social, cultural and economic.
For more information, please contact the Barnard Center
for Research on Women at 212-854-2067.
Contact: Petra Tuomi, Office of Public Affairs, 212-854-7907
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