About AWA
Who We Are
Advancing accountability, transitional and restorative justice, peace and security in Afghanistan
Our
Work
Accountability Watch Afghanistan is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to advance accountability, transitional and restorative justice, peace and security in Afghanistan through community-based monitoring, research, documentation, and advocacy.
AWA works directly with communities in and from Afghanistan based on a victim- and survivor-centered approach, and by engaging with communities, human rights groups, media and civil society, international human rights mechanisms and other relevant stakeholders.
Through these collaborations, AWA seeks to amplify the voices of the people, empower communities, particularly the victims and survivors, to actively exercise agency and participate in processes that shape decisions about their past, present and future.
AWA envisions a future in which the people of Afghanistan—regardless of their gender, age, ethnic, religious, social, political, and geographical identities and backgrounds— live in dignity, equality, and peace.
We believe such a future requires reckoning with past wrongs and ongoing atrocities that not only provides victims with access to justice, truth, reparations, and guarantees of non-repetition but also contributes to healing, reconciliation, institutional and structural reforms, and social cohesion that underpin durable peace and development.
We believe that this cannot be achieved without meaningful participation of various groups, including the victims and survivors, in fair and inclusive national and international processes.
Our Vision
Our Mission
We work to advance justice, accountability, peace and security through community-based monitoring, research and documentation of human rights violations and atrocities including war crimes, crimes against humanity (gender persecution and gender apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and acts of genocide known as atrocity crimes), and other grave human rights violations.
We advocate for justice for victims and survivors through international accountability mechanisms to end the entrenched impunity, which has fueled the vicious cycle of conflict over almost five decades.
AWA seeks to strengthen the connection between the realities of victims and survivors and people's perspectives and national and international justice, peace, and security processes related to Afghanistan.
AWA promotes inter-community dialogue to provide a space for developing an inclusive understanding of both in-group and out-group sufferings as a gateway for healing, reconciliation, and sustainable and just peace.