Posts in Policy Action
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.

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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.”

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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.

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