Global Campaign for Peace Education

New Book: Peace and Reconciliation in International and Islamic Law

July 3, 2023 / Publications

“Peace and Reconciliation in International and Islamic Law” explores the synergies and the differences between the two systems of international and Islamic law in the area conflict resolution focusing on selected conflict theatres around the world; along with interfacing with international humanitarian norms, human rights standards, treaties, best practice vis a vis exploring innovative concepts such as theo-diplomacy as means to attempting to facilitate a peaceful resolution to a conflict.

A Call to Conscience on the Human Rights of the People of Afghanistan

May 25, 2023 / Action Alerts

A significant high-level international meeting on the situation in Afghanistan recently took place in Doha. This letter addresses the outcomes of that meeting. We ask all participants of the Global Campaign for Peace Education for your signature and support of all efforts to protect the human rights of the Afghan people.

Afghan Professor Jailed After Protesting Restrictions on Women

February 21, 2023 / News & Highlights

February 2 marked 500 days since the Taliban banned Afghan girls from secondary education. That day the Taliban also arrested university professor Ismail Mashal, one of the few men to bravely protest the Taliban’s recent ban on women’s university education.

Reviving the College Dreams of Afghan Women

February 7, 2023 / News & Highlights

A month after the Taliban abruptly banned women from colleges and universities in Afghanistan, U.S. institutions are trying to help them back into academe any way they can.

Call for support toward a legal pathway for Afghan Fulbright Scholars in the U.S.

February 6, 2023 / Action Alerts, News & Highlights

Yet again, the United States is failing to meet its moral obligations to Afghans. In this case the 2022 cohort of Afghan Fulbright scholars. Having completed their academic programs in the US, they are, as outlined in their letter to the Dept. of State, posted here, in legal and economic limbo.

Final Communiqué of the Extraordinary Meeting of the OIC Executive Committee on “The Recent Developments and the Humanitarian Situation in Afghanistan”

January 28, 2023 / News & Highlights

“[The OIC] Urges the de facto Afghan Authorities to allow women and girls to exercise their rights and contribute to the development of Afghan society in accordance with the rights and responsibilities as guaranteed to them by Islam and international human rights law.” Point 10, Communique from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.

Afghanistan: Taliban to set new rules on women’s aid work, UN says

January 27, 2023 / News & Highlights

We are encouraged by the report of UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffith’s tour of Afghanistan, who points to interactions with the Taliban that show cracks in the monolith of the existing authority. An encouraging number of provincial Taliban seem ready to change.

Women’s Rights must NOT be a bargaining chip between the Taliban and the International Community

January 26, 2023 / Action Alerts, News & Highlights

As we continue the series on the Taliban’s bans on women’s education and employment, it is essential to our understanding and further action to hear directly from Afghan women who know best the harm these bans impose; not only on the affected women and their families, but on the entire Afghan nation. This statement from a coalition of Afghan women’s organizations fully describes these harms.

Press Release following UN Deputy Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director’s Visit to Afghanistan

January 25, 2023 / Action Alerts, News & Highlights

This post, a statement resulting from a high-level UN delegation to Afghanistan, is part of a series on the December edicts of the Taliban, banning women from university attendance and employment in the NGOs that provide essential services to the Afghan people.

Taking Humanitarianism Hostage – the Case of Afghanistan & Multilateral Organisations

January 13, 2023 / Opinion

Multilateralism is supposed to be the guarantor of all human rights and dignity, for all people, at all times. But as governmental regimes weaken, so do traditional multilateral entities heavily reliant on those governments. It is time for community-based transnational networks based on intergenerational, multicultural, gender-sensitive leaders.

Sign-on letter to the UN & OIC on Women’s Human Rights in Afghanistan

January 6, 2023 / Action Alerts, News & Highlights

Please consider signing this letter in response to the devastating impact of the recent bans on women’s higher education and women’s work in Afghanistan. Religions for Peace and The Interfaith Center of New York are hosting this letter with other faith-based and humanitarian NGOs in advance of high-level meetings between UN Officials and the Taliban or “De Facto Authorities.”

Not In Our Name: Statement on the Taliban and Women’s Education

January 5, 2023 / Action Alerts, News & Highlights

The Muslim Public Affairs Council, in this statement calling for the reversal of the Taliban’s ban on girls’ and women’s education, reiterates the assertions now being made by so many Muslim organizations. The policy is anti-Islamic and contradicts a basic principle of the faith on the right and necessity of education for all, so it must be immediately rescinded.