Project Description
/ AFGHANISTAN
Humanitarian food and material aid
Humanitarian food and material aid
December 2022 – today
CONTEXT
In Afghanistan, the humanitarian crisis of incredible proportions has become even more complex and severe since the Taliban took control in August 2021. Job losses, lack of cash and soaring prices are creating a new class of hungry people in Afghanistan. 18.9 million Afghans do not consume enough food. Food aid is therefore a real lifeline.
→ 283 families supported in Kabul
→ 32 families supported in Herat
THE PROJECT
Stand Speak Rise Up!’s emergency humanitarian aid project aims to provide humanitarian aid in Afghanistan to over 283 families in the Kabul region. The food baskets contain basic ingredients and heating supplies, and can feed a family for several weeks.
Most of these families were cared for by women who, having lost their jobs, can no longer provide for their loved ones. Following successive Taliban decrees, women are excluded from public life.
In addition, a series of devastating earthquakes hit the Herat region in October 2023. More than 12,000 people were affected, 90% of them women and children, due to their permanent presence in the home. Stand Speak Rise Up! immediately mobilized, launching a second emergency humanitarian aid operation in Afghanistan. Stand Speak Rise Up! also began distributing tents, blankets and food aid to over 32 families.
We would like to thank our donors, the Paris Bar Association, the Engie Foundation and the Ouicare Solidarity Fund for their support in this project.
Afghanistan: Stand Speak Rise Up!’s advocacy led by Chékéba Hachemi in the media
Public Sénat
At eleven years old, she fled Afghanistan alone to escape the war. As a refugee in France, she has dedicated her life to the empowerment of Afghan women. The first Afghan diplomat, serving at the European Union from 2002 to 2005, she founded “Afghanistan Libre” and the NGO “Stand Speak Rise Up,” which supports survivors of sexual violence in conflict zones. As Afghan women’s freedoms have been shrinking since the Taliban’s return to power in 2021, how does she find the strength to keep fighting? Is the worsening situation for Afghan women inevitable? How can we break the silence and the West’s inaction in the face of this tragedy? This week, Rebecca Fitoussi welcomes Chékéba Hachemi on “Un monde, un regard,” an inspiring series of in-depth interviews in a world lacking direction and role models.
Through the association Stand Speak Rise Up!, an advisor to the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg fights for the little freedom Afghan women still have.
Éric Cheysson, a surgeon and president of La Chaîne de l’Espoir, describes the situation as “social femicide.” Chékéba Hachemi, co-founder of the Luxembourg-based association Stand Speak Rise Up!, refers to it as “a form of genocide and a defiance of the West.”
The law enacted on August 22 by the Taliban government to “promote virtue and prevent vice” now governs many aspects of Afghan life under Islamic law, the Sharia. This 87-page, 35-article text is particularly oppressive for women, with its most absurd point being that they no longer have the right to raise their voices.
In Afghanistan, women are now prohibited from raising their voices in public. Three years after their return to power, the Taliban continue to gradually erase, “in the name of Islam,” half of their population, while the other half remains silent. How far will they go? What is life like today in Kabul and beyond? Is there a way out of this prison? We discuss these questions with Chékéba Hachemi and Eric Cheysson.
With a new law, the Taliban are further stifling the rights of Afghan women. Chekeba Hachemi, co-founder of Stand Speak Rise Up!, denounced this new Taliban law on France 2, which represents a new setback for the rights of Afghan women. The situation in Afghanistan is dire
Three years after the Taliban took power, women’s rights in Afghanistan continue to deteriorate. For ELLE, Chékéba Hachemi, president of Afghanistan Libre and co-founder of Stand Speak Rise Up, reacts to the new morality law, which further silences women.
Jerome Bloch highlights the statements of Chékéba Hachemi, co-founder of Stand Speak Rise Up!, on the dire situation of women in Afghanistan.
Stand Speak Rise Up! mobilizes for Afghan women and girls through emergency humanitarian distribution projects and access to maternal and child health care.