Berlin, February 2024

About this event

On February 21-23, 2024, the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience (ICSC), through its Global Initiative for Justice, Truth and Reconciliation (GIJTR), and its member site, the Afghanistan Human Rights and Democracy Organization (AHRDO), and local partner, Medico International convened a three-day meeting on Forced Displacement in Berlin, Germany.

The meeting will gather 20 Afghan CSOs in the diaspora and CSOs working on human rights, transitional justice and forced displacement in Afghanistan and globally to chart more unified and common pathways to ensure meaningful and equitable participation of forcibly displaced people in advocacy and better harness their expertise and perspectives.

The meeting is part of the project “Afghanistan: Advancing Rights Adopting an Inclusive and Victim-Centered Documentation and Memorialization Approach,” a joint effort of ICSC and AHRDO to advance truth, justice and accountability, and shift social perceptions and policies towards forcibly displaced people. The project was conceptualized as an attempt to address issues of invisibility and gaps in the documentation and memorialization of forced displacement in Afghanistan and worldwide.

Over the past six months ICSC and AHRDO have been working closely with Afghan CSOs in the diaspora and CSOs working on human rights, transitional justice and forced displacement in Afghanistan and globally to strengthen capacities and build new alliances and networks of support.

As part of these efforts, the upcoming “In Their Own Voice: Centering Forcibly Displaced Communities in Advocacy Efforts” meeting in Berlin in February will bring partners together to discuss how to ensure meaningful and equitable participation of forcibly displaced people in advocacy, strengthen participants’ capacity to build effective advocacy strategies and develop collaboration and build alliances among diaspora and across communities nationally, regionally and internationally.

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