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Organization (AHRDO)

Afghanistan Human Rights and Democracy

Organization (AHRDO)
Afghanistan

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Address: Kart-e 3, Opposite Finest Supermarket Kabul, Afghanistan

Phone: +93 (0) 783 636 707
Visit website: http://ahrdo.org/

Email this organisation: info@ahrdo.org

The Afghanistan Human Rights and Democracy Organisation (AHRDO) was established in early 2009 by
Afghan human rights and civil society activists with a strong commitment to work with the most
marginalised sectors of society.

AHRDO is committed to the promotion of democracy, non-violence and human rights in Afghanistan
and the region. They work principally through employing arts and theatre-based programmes that
create spaces for dialogue, peacebuilding, social justice, public participation and consequently societal
transformation from the grassroots up.
AHRDO aims to complement the external democratisation eorts with activities that are rooted and
informed by local cultural traditions and values. The organisation supports the people of Afghanistan to
create a vision of the future and provide opportunities to transform fear into friendship, disappointment
into hope, knowledge into understanding, hesitation into action and individual eorts into collective
power for the purpose of building a peaceful, just and democratic society.

AHRDO has a strong faith that the current political climate requires civil society and human rights
organizations to shift their focus to the so-called softer aspects of democratisation and human rights
promotion in Afghanistan. To achieve this in an ecient, accountable but also creative and innovative

manner, AHRDO has decided to employ a series of unique arts-based methodologies with dierent but
ultimately complementary components. Some of these methodologies include: Theatre of the Oppressed,
Playback Theatre, Conventional Theatre, and Radio Drama, as well as Poetry and Music.
Last updated: June 2012

Themes
Culture, media & advocacy
Human rights

Areas of operation
Areas of operation: Kabul, Balkh

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