CSHRN produces together with the private radio channel ‘Good Morning Afghanistan' (GMA) since 2004 a weekly 30 minutes emission on human rights. It is called “The Voice” and is broadcasted in Dari and Pashto. ‘The Voice' addresses crucial issues of human rights in Afghanistan by educating the general public on human rights, but also by investigating severe cases of violations of human rights. It does this by having experts giving educational programs, by facilitating discussions between Afghan citizens, parliamentarians, intellectuals and civil society organisations on important human rights issues, by presenting investigative programs and following up on the violations with state actors.
‘The Voice' can be received through all of Afghanistan.
By producing ‘The Voice', CSRHN and ‘Good Morning...Continue...

The radio programme on International Humanitarian Law (IHL) in Afghanistan is debating the role of the international conventions on humanitarian law in the current situation of Afghanistan and their implication for the international and national military operations. The programme consists of two parts: analysis and debate. An international lawyer with expertise in international law prepares an analysis of the situation. Then the moderator of the radio programme asks questions from the guests invited in the program according to this analysis.
The main focus of the programme is to deliberate questions regarding the killing of innocent people during military operations, the conditions of prisoners of war, the conditions in the prisons controlled by international military troops in Afghanistan, the role of the international community in monitoring IHL in Afghanistan, the role of the Afghan state and the international community regarding IHL and…
The programme is aired once a month by Good Morning Afghanistan with the collaboration of the Civil Society and Human Rights Network. To listen to this programme in national languages, please click here...

An Afghanistan youth's cultural network has been established in 10/ October/2009. The general aim of the youth's cultural network is to promote the understanding of the Afghan youths about the cultural rights of the Afghan citizens in order to protect these rights. To this end, a network for a dialogue on social and cultural issues among students of different afghan universities has been created. This network will anchor the culture of human rights among students and strengthens the cooperation and understanding among students from different cultural and geographical backgrounds.
The cultural youth network is support in the technical and coordination field by CSHRN, financially by the Denmark 's Cultural Centre for Development and all the activities in the regions are carried out through the regional offices of CSHRN....Continue...

Radio programme on Access to Information was launched in Mazare Sharif by CSHRN and radio Rabia Balkhi: Access to information is one of the elements of democratic governments, and reaching this state is a legal matter. In the last few years, the government of Afghanistan has undertaken many efforts in order to implement all elements and values of democracy. One of these elements is access to information according to the 50th article of the Afghan constitution. The Civil Society and Human Rights Network (CSHRN), an active civil society network, is the first network to fully acknowledge the importance of access to information besides its other valuable programs. CSHRN tries to find a logical and practical way for the implementation of this issue. For this purpose, CSHRN conducted different kinds of programs, discussion and dialogues with different levels of society. CSHRN has national programs all over Afghanistan. CSHRN conducted an analytical symposium in Mazar-e-Sharif on access to information. During this program, the participants discussed about the lack of access to information, the unavailability of reliable information and the development of a draft law on access to information. CSHRN will also soon carry out different programs on the law on access to information in different regions of Afghanistan . Nowadays, CSHRN conducts some radio programs for raising...Continue...