Source description last updated: 12 June 2026

In brief: Rawadari is a UK-based Afghan human rights organization.

Coverage on ecoi.net:

Selected reports.

Covered monthly on ecoi.net, for Afghanistan.

Mission/Mandate/Objectives:

“Rawadari is an Afghan human rights organisation that aims to deepen and grow the human rights culture of Afghanistan, ultimately reducing the suffering of all Afghans, especially women and girls.” (Rawadari website: About, undated)

“Rawadari's work aims to expand the human rights community of Afghanistan with new constituencies and allies inside and outside the country.”

“Rawadari aims to employ all viable mechanisms for judicial and non-judicial accountability to combat the entrenched culture of impunity for violations committed in Afghanistan.” (Rawadari website: About, undated) It is thus “providing support and information to the international investigation and monitoring mechanisms. We are advocating for expanding avenues to accountability for Afghans through utilizing the existing mechanisms such as the International Criminal Court and International Court of Justice as well as creating new accountability mechanisms through the UN.” (Rawadari website: About: Victim-centered justice and accountability, undated)

“We monitor and document human rights situation in Afghanistan through a network of data providers on the ground. We publish 4 human rights reports annually, in Dari, Pashto and English to increase awareness about the human rights situation, battle misinformation and inform policy and collective action.” (Rawadari website: About: Monitoring, Documentation & Reporting, undated)

Funding:

Donors of Rawadari are the following: Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Open Society Foundations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Netherlands, Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Mala Fund and Global Affairs Canada. (Rawadari website: Donors, undated; see also: Government of Canada: Project profile — Human Rights Monitoring and Reporting in Afghanistan, undated; No Peace Without Justice: Annual Report of Activities 2023, September 2024, p. 29-31 & 54-55)

Scope of reporting:

Geographic focus: Afghanistan

Thematic focus: human rights, women rights, advocacy for victims and survivors

Methodology:

“We take a victim and survivor-centred approach in all our work. We ensure confidentiality and privacy in our work, especially with regard to the information and stories shared with us.” (Rawadari website: About, undated)

Rawadaris research is based on monitoring teams that “have conducted interviews with victims & their family members, eyewitnesses, human rights defenders, activists, journalists, school teachers, university professors, government employees, defence lawyers, local elders, health sector workers, and relevant national and international organizations in 30 provinces of the country.” (Rawadari: Afghanistan Human Rights Situation Report 2025, March 2026, p. 7)

Additionally, reports may be “informed by literature review of existing documents and research on education in Afghanistan. The research and documentation team consulted previous reports by Rawadari, as well as reports and research published by human rights organizations and media outlets on the status of women’s education in Afghanistan since 15 August 2021.” (Rawadari: Excluded and Deprived: The educational crisis for women and girls in Afghanistan, November 2024, p. 5)

Language(s) of publications:

English, Dari, Pashto

All links accessed 12 June 2026.

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