About Together Stronger

Since the beginning of the peace process with the Taliban (2018), there has been rising concern among women in Afghanistan regarding the future of human rights in the country.  Women’s most concern has been regarding safeguarding women’s achievement and progress in the latter years.  Afghan women started mobilizing themselves and pushing for women’s participation in the process as the only way to influence the peace agenda.  Various groups of women such as; the Afghan women’s network, and Our voice Our future inside the country have started writing advocacy statements, and letters and start embarking on regional and international alliance-building and networking with other women. 

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In 2019 an Afghan women’s delegation that came to the US for an advocacy meeting with US policymakers, met with Afghan diaspora women and men as a follow-up to this alliance-building effort an online group was established among Afghans in the US and inside the country which was expanded to include friends of Afghanistan that include human rights activist, development worker who had a longer focus on Afghanistan and believed on the protection and participation of Afghan women’s human rights.  This online network of women from Afghanistan and the International alliance was called Together Stronger.

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The group without having any hierarchy or structure remains an ad hoc advocacy group to simplify the voices of women from inside Afghanistan and mobilize women in the diaspora beyond the United States.  Afghan and International Alliance from Europe Australia, and Canada joined the group among several other initiatives to run a letter-writing campaign that kept Afghan women’s voices stronger in the international policy-making arena and created the necessary pressure to register Afghan women’s concerns and raise their critical of the failure of the process itself.