We collect, process and distribute news on human rights violations throughout the country using pool of reporters. News stories are published to inform the general public as well as various groups in Afghan and international activists abroad.
“When the media puts a spotlight on human rights, people start talking about the issues and demanding change. A strong, independent media is a referee between governments and citizens. When human rights are protected, governments are more accountable, and people’s lives improve.” Journalists for Human Rights
It’s time for you to act and write about Human Rights cases happening in Afghanistan.
Editor in Chief Basir Seerat
Our team:
Najeeb Farzad
Najeeb Farzad is a writer, human rights activist, and photojournalist. He is the founder & director of ACH, which is a non-profit art and culture organization in Kabul. He started his career as a photojournalist and blogger in Afghanistan in 2007 and started working with the United Nations in 2009. His photographs have been displayed in many exhibitions in Afghanistan. His reports, articles, and photographs have helped the Afghan people be heard on an international level.
Nargis Rezai
Nargis Rezai is a French interpreter, Human rights activist, blogger, and journalist for Afghan human rights. She also writes for a Swedish Magazine named Cora, which has been publishing since 2004 about Women, art, and culture. Nargis worked with the 3rd Eye Photojournalism Center as a photographer and Project Assistant, which was funded by the US embassy, SDC, French Embassy, UNESCO, BBC, World Bank, and international media.
Blog: http://www.amasangari.wordpress.com/
Zahra Nazari
worked as an active member of the National Centre for Policy Research at Kabul University, which is part of the German Afghan Research Forum, she is a journalist for Afghan Human Rights Home. Zahra contributed to the well-being of society by working as a therapist, offering support to both children and women in the prisons of Kabul who were suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
Ms. Fatima H. Bakhsh is a Master of Public Administration (MPA) graduate from Cornell University. Since 2014, she has acted as a women’s rights activist and researcher on women political and economic empowerment/participation and gender equality in Afghanistan through her professional and personal life. You can follow her on twitter via https://twitter.com/Fatima__GH.
Farshad
Farshad is a former Fulbright scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and specializes in time-series econometrics. His contribution to the Afghanistan Human Rights project dates back to 2012, when he served as a translator. He started writing as a reporter and administrator for the website in 2018. He has extensive experience in creative writing, translation, and academic writing, and has served as a country director at Asian Culture House (Afghanistan).
Amazon Rezai
Amazon Rezai is a Human Rights activist who has worked for Goodweave International as Monitoring Officer to stop Child labor in the carpet industry.
As a human rights and social activist, she has initiated several Human Rights and Cultural Development campaigns to support women and minorities, with financial and technical support from publicly funded mechanisms. Eradication of Violence Against Women, Afghan Youth Voice Festival, Training in blogging, social network building, TV roundtables, reports, youth email-based networks to find jobs, etc., in Kabul, are among her activities.
Twitter: @estagidia
Kobra Moradi
Kobra Moradi is a human rights advocate. She is currently pursuing a double degree in Law and International Relations and has a strong interest in philosophy and human rights. She spent the summer of 2015/2016 in Indonesia volunteering full-time at the Cisarua Refugee Learning Center, teaching English and Leadership Skills to young people seeking asylum, an experience she says has changed her life. Kobra came to Australia from Afghanistan as a refugee with her family in 2005.
twitter.com/KobraMoradi
kobra209.wordpress.com
Hadi Marifat
If Afghanistan is to move forward, its people will have to shed their fear. Motivated by this idea, Hadi Marifat has embraced the power of the arts to transform his country.
Marifat was seven years old when he fled home to escape the Afghan civil war. For 16 years, he remained a refugee in Pakistan while across the border, the Taliban reigned. He returned in 2002 to an Afghanistan that had changed beyond recognition during his absence.
When he got there, the Taliban were not entirely defeated, but Marifat noticed among his compatriots an increasingly positive energy and a desire for a “new Afghanistan”. At the same time, he recalls, it was clear that people were still “traumatized by the horror and terror of the Taliban.”
Marifat became interested in the power of music, theater, art, and poetry – which he calls the “software” of peace building – to enable people to shape a more peaceful, just society.
twitter.com/HMarifat
http://civiliansinconflict.org
Basir Ahang
Basir Ahang is a tireless social and human rights activist and a voice for refugees in Italy and across Europe.
His work focuses on human rights, particularly women’s, refugees’, and minorities’ rights.
Based in Italy, he is well known to many refugees from different nations for his numerous articles, reportages, and photographs, as he has been advocating for their rights and helping them get their voices heard by officials in this country.
Before moving to Italy, Basir Ahang used human rights journalism in Afghanistan to report the violations of human rights, which put his life in danger there.
His reports, articles, photographs, and documentary films have helped many refugees be heard by the refugee organizations at the European level.
Bashir Ahang writes in Dari (Persian), English, and Italian.
He was the first journalist and human rights activist to visit refugees in Greece and write several reports on them, which helped hundreds of them get their voices heard by the UNHCR and other refugee organizations.
Social justice, equality, human dignity, and human rights are his values.
twitter.com/basirahang
Marziye Vafayi
A psychologist, and an Afghan women activist who wrote articles for the Afghan Human Rights news platform, plus the Afghan newspapers, and other media platforms.
She is a feature writer and a psychologist-activist, exercising her right to participate in political activities, dedicated to social justice, and expressing political opinions on social media. Her articles are published in the Kabul Morning News, Nim Rokh Media, and in her own established online psychological clinic, #SufferFree, for Afghans in the move.
The new team is working with us!
We’re pleased to inform you that Afghanistan Human Rights will be managed by a new researcher based in Afghanistan. Our colleague brings years of advocacy and editing experience. For security reasons, the identity of our new colleague won’t be disclosed. We hope this is acceptable to our readers.
We’ve also revisited how we will advance our advocacy to ensure greater reach and higher-quality documentation. Posts edited for this platform may also be shared on platforms like Wikipedia and in multiple languages. We are striving to bring on board new volunteer editors/writers and researchers.
Afghanistan Human Rights Management Team
Afghan Human Rights Home 
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