Human Rights Defenders (HRD) Programme Fellow for Afghanistan At Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development

FORUM-ASIA’s HRD Programme is a protection measure for Human Rights defenders (HRDs) including women Human Rights defenders (WHRD) in Asia. It seeks to facilitate a conducive environment for HRDs/WHRDs towards a more effective and efficient conduct of their work while being conscious of the risks involving their actions. It also pursues provision of practical safeguards for HRDs/WHRDs at risk by reducing both actual and perceived threats stemming from their work and activities.

Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Main Activities:
   a) Assist in managing the Protection Plan/ Emergency Assistance for human rights defenders at risk in Afghanistan;
   b) Monitor country-specific and thematic human rights situations in Afghanistan;
   c) Assist with administrative programme work including documentation and compilation of human rights information; and
   d) Assist with organising or preparing for consultations, capacity development, research, and/or other events.
2. Specific Tasks under the Assigned Department
   e) Assist in the preparation and implementation of the protection plan/ emergency assistance support for HRD/WHRDs at risk from Afghanistan including document translation in English;
   f) Monitor human rights situations and issues in Afghanistan related to HRD/WHRDs;
   g) Assist in maintaining regional database on HRDs cases in Asia, in particular Afghanistan;
   h) Assist in drafting urgent appeals which are sent to relevant UN Special Procedures and other key regional and international mechanisms for the protection of HRDs in Asia, in particular Afghanistan; and
   i) Any other tasks according to personal capacity and programme needs.
3. Key Expected Documentary Outputs
   j) Documents related to emergency assistance supports to HRD/WHRDs at risk from Afghanistan;
   k) Minutes compilation of the consultations, capacity development and/or other events; and
   l) Draft monthly statistics of encoded HRDs cases in the database on HRDs in Afghanistan.

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