For the future of Afghanistan’s women

“We Afghan women and girls have experienced almost every type of sexual violence”; that is how an Afghan women described the situation in her country over the last 20 years.

The human rights of Afghan women were trampled underfoot for decades and the women suffered grave physical and psychological damage.

That is why medica mondiale is involved in various projects to make a better future possible for Afghanistan’s women and girls, who continue to face very uncertain prospects.

On a trip to Afghanistan in March 2003, Dr. Monika Hauser and the journalist and TV presenter Bettina Böttinger were able to gain insight into the current situation there. They report on the still extremely poor living conditions for women. The situation in Kabul Women's Prison is particularly horrific; that's why the women imprisoned there have been supported by mm-staff for the past year.
At the same time, the qualification programme for women from the medical and psychosocial professions, launched by medica mondiale nine months ago, has seen its first successes. more information

 

Die Projekte von medica mondiale:

Doctorane Omid – „Ärztinnen der Hoffnung“

is a programme to deploy Afghan women with medical qualifications living in exile in Germany. They support their colleagues in various regions of Afghanistan in short one to three-month deployments.   more information

Training for work with traumatised women

qualifies women within 18 months to deal appropriately with other women who have experienced sexualised violence. 40 women with a background in the health care sector and psychosocial services are acquiring basic knowledge and counselling skills for trauma work. more information.

Lobbying

and committed advocacy of women’s rights: in Kabul Prison, in passport and detention proceedings, in the struggle to gain admission of women to university and to increase the age at which girls can be married. more information.