Lifesaving Humanitarian Response for Women and Girls in Afghanistan: An Urgent Call for U.S. Action

The rights of women, girls, and other marginalized groups in Afghanistan have suffered significant rollbacks since the fall of the Afghan government including death threats by the Taliban, barriers to accessing lifesaving services and resources, and human rights abuses. The U.S. must act now through a coordinated lifesaving humanitarian response to address these abuses and prevent further rollbacks of hard-won rights of women and girls in Afghanistan. The Alliance for Peacebuilding, Futures Without Violence, the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security, Human Rights Watch, Mina's List, Refugees International, VOICE, and the Women's Refugee Commission came together to release this brief.

Policy and Advocacy, Policy ActionMegan RodgersDecember 10, 2021AfP, Policy Brief

AfP & NGO Letter to the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations Supporting the House Passed Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (CJS) Appropriations Bill

November 2021 - AfP and 28 organizations write in support of the House passed Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (CJS) appropriations bill that allocates $30-million for community grants to “support community-based approaches to advancing justice and reconciliation, facilitating dialogue between all parties, building local capacity, deescalating community tensions, and preventing hate crimes through conflict resolution and community empowerment and education.”

Policy ActionMegan RodgersNovember 22, 2021Policy Brief

AfP & NGO Letter to Secretary Antony Blinken, Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, and Administrator Power on the Deteriorating Situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH)

November 2021 - 40 NGOs urge U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, USAID Administrator Samantha Power, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield to use all available diplomatic and development tools to de-escalate the political and ethnic tensions in BiH.

Policy ActionNick ZuroskiNovember 19, 2021Policy Brief

Statement by the Alliance for Peacebuilding on the Deteriorating Crisis in Ethiopia

Policy Action, Press ReleaseNick ZuroskiNovember 5, 20212021, AfP

Statement by the Alliance for Peacebuilding on the Crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Policy Action, Press ReleaseNick ZuroskiNovember 5, 20212021, AfP

CEO-level Sign On Letter to Nat. Sec. Adv. Sullivan on Afghanistan Evacuations and Meeting Request

October 2021 - 103 NGOs in the international development, humanitarian, peacebuilding, refugee, immigration and resettlement, and veterans affairs sectors, write to express our alarm at the estimated tens of thousands of at-risk Afghans who were left behind after the August 31 U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan. These individuals played key roles in efforts to strengthen Afghanistan’s government, judiciary, civil society, and media and to protect human rights. For their work, many now face the threat of violent retaliation at the hands of de-facto authorities. Given the urgency of this matter, our community respectfully requests a CEO or Executive-level meeting with National Security Advisor Sullivan to voice our concerns and hear the Administration’s plans to evacuate and resettle at-risk Afghans who remain in Afghanistan.

Policy ActionMegan RodgersOctober 28, 2021Policy Brief

Integrating Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding into the COVID-19 Global Pandemic Response

This policy brief provides key recommendations to the Biden Administration to effectively mitigate the pandemic’s whole-of-society destabilizing impacts by centering conflict prevention and peacebuilding efforts.

Policy and Advocacy, Policy ActionNick ZuroskiOctober 18, 2021AfP, Policy Brief

U.S. Immigration Policy Brief: What Does a Human Rights Centered Foreign Policy Approach to U.S. Immigration Look Like?

This policy brief provides key recommendations to the Biden Administration to prevent the weaponization of immigration that is fueling divisions and polarization in the United States.

Policy and Advocacy, Policy ActionNick ZuroskiOctober 15, 2021AfP, Policy Brief, IRPB