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One of our lovely volunteers, Akshara, has written about the way that her time at Womankind has changed the way she thinks about women’s rights.

Our policy team have been hard at work on a fantastic new Women’s Rights Advocacy Toolkit which will help women’s rights activists all over the world to campaign for change.

Our partner AWRC and other Afghan women’s organizations created billboards to raise awareness about violence in each of Kabul’s districts for International Women’s Day.

Although unrest is spreading through Afghanistan the seriousness of the current situation shouldn’t eclipse the severity of the situation facing women activists and politicians every day.

Afghan women’s rights activist Selay Ghaffar shares her disappointment about the missed opportunity for progress at the recent Bonn conference on the future of Afghanistan.

The Afghan Women’s Declaration to the International Conference on Afghanistan in Bonn calls on the Afghan government to protect women’s rights.

The Bonn Conference will have a huge impact on Afghan women. Womankind’s Afghan partners are in Bonn – one is attending the conference and the other is raising awareness from outside.

“When I was just 8 years old my parents forcibly got me engaged to a 21 year-old man. They made a contract for us to marry when I turn 18.”

Despite commitments by the Afghan government women and girls continue to be the victims of horrific violence unimaginable to most of us.

On Friday 25 November, Womankind held a glittering event at the Savoy Hotel in London to mark the International Day of Action to Eliminate Violence Against Women.