Event(s)
Voices on the Rise: Afghan Women Making the News
Organized to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the Conference “Voices on the Rise: Afghan Women Making the News”, followed by the projection of the documentary film “Girls on the Air” by Ms. Valentina Monti and the inauguration of the artistic exhibition also under the title “Voices on the Rise: Afghan Women Making the News”, by Khorshied Samad and Jane McElhone, will take place on 22 November 2010. The exhibition will stand till 26 November 2010.
The projection of the documentary film “Girls on the Air” by Ms. Valentina Monti (63 minutes, in Dari, subtitled in English) will take place at 5:50 p.m.
The inauguration of the artistic exhibition “Voices on the Rise: Afghan Women Making the News by Khorshied Samad and Jane McElhone, Curators of the exhibition, will take place at 6:50 p.m. and will stand till 26 November 2010 in Salle des pas perdus.
The photo exhibition was launched first in 2006 in Ottawa, Canada, and has toured extensively since then in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, London, UK, and Jakarta, Indonesia.
It is an evolving testimony to the lives of Afghan women working as journalists, producers, managers, writers, photographers, filmmakers, human rights activists and parliamentarians, serving as an archive of Afghan women leaders and public figures. The exhibition provides a very strong platform to expose the positive side of culture and progress in Afghanistan through the strong and active presence of Afghan women working in the public eye, sometimes at great threat to themselves.
A large number of Afghan women are currently working in journalism and in communications. All of them are formally protected by Afghanistan’s 2004 constitution, which defines women as equal citizens and ensures they are seen, heard, and read about in the media. Although Afghanistan is required to solicit and respect women’s views on the country’s laws, policies and practices due to its signature of the U.N General Assembly’s 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), Afghan women journalists still face societal barriers and cultural restrictions hindering them to work and participate in public life.
The inauguration of the artistic exhibition “Voices on the Rise: Afghan Women Making the News by Khorshied Samad and Jane McElhone, Curators of the exhibition, will take place at 6:50 p.m. and will stand till 26 November 2010 in Salle des pas perdus.
The photo exhibition was launched first in 2006 in Ottawa, Canada, and has toured extensively since then in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, London, UK, and Jakarta, Indonesia.
It is an evolving testimony to the lives of Afghan women working as journalists, producers, managers, writers, photographers, filmmakers, human rights activists and parliamentarians, serving as an archive of Afghan women leaders and public figures. The exhibition provides a very strong platform to expose the positive side of culture and progress in Afghanistan through the strong and active presence of Afghan women working in the public eye, sometimes at great threat to themselves.
A large number of Afghan women are currently working in journalism and in communications. All of them are formally protected by Afghanistan’s 2004 constitution, which defines women as equal citizens and ensures they are seen, heard, and read about in the media. Although Afghanistan is required to solicit and respect women’s views on the country’s laws, policies and practices due to its signature of the U.N General Assembly’s 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), Afghan women journalists still face societal barriers and cultural restrictions hindering them to work and participate in public life.
