- Posted on 2 Sep 2021
- 45-minute read
Right now, the world’s spotlight is shining on Afghanistan and the future of its peoples.
Can this moment galvanise Australians into action? Can we support the needs of people in Afghanistan, the Afghan diaspora, and refugee communities in Australia and around the world?
In this webinar, we invited an expert panel to discuss what can be done to maintain energy and awareness, now and in the long term.
If you are interested in hearing about future events, please contact events.socialjustice@uts.edu.au.
We need to keep the dialogue going on. We need to keep the public informed and we need to bring more people from the ground to talk and inform us and, more importantly, try to fill the gap with the solidarity we have at the community level and also the government policies. Dr Nematullah Bizhan
It's important that we engage and engage and engage with Afghanistan and with the people of Afghanistan. My hope is that each and every one of us could write to our MPs, to our Ministers, ask them to please help them and help their families. This is the least Australia could do for someone who has actually lived nearly 10 years here. Ali Reza Yunespour
Afghan victims, Afghan human rights defenders, have been saying for years that the lack of accountability and a culture of impunity has really defined the conflict in Afghanistan and has led to the consequences that we're seeing today instability for years on end. Rawan Arraf
Are there going to be enough female teachers to teach women? Most likely not. So essentially what you're saying is if there's no teachers to teach women, there's no classes for women. It's this system that creates the problem and now we're just going to go back to where we were 20 years ago. This is the distressing part. Lala Pordeli
Are there going to be enough female teachers to teach women? Most likely not. So essentially what you're saying is if there's no teachers to teach women, there's no classes for women. It's this system that creates the problem and now we're just going to go back to where we were 20 years ago. This is the distressing part. Lala Pordeli
Speakers
Dr Nematullah Bizhan – Lecturer, Crawford school of Public Policy, Australian National University
Ali Reza Yunespour – Partnerships co-ordinator, Indigo Foundation
Rawan Arraf – Principal Lawyer & Executive Director, Australian Centre for International Justice
Lala Pordeli – Solicitor, Concordia Legal This event is jointly presented by UTS Centre for Social Justice & Inclusion and Hunar Symposia – academics and artists working to decolonise knowledge of conflict through art.