Who do we support?
We support Afghan Females and their families at risk by providing legal advice, adminstrative support, or provision of scholarships in Europe. The afghan families that we have helped are either known to us personally or have been recommended and identified as at risk by personal colleagues/friends we have worked with.
AiCN supports at risk families known personally to AiCN members to try and find pathways as well as looking for solutions in emergency situations. The 120 families that AiCN have been supported are families who are at risk of torture, harassment, inprisonment or even death due to their connections with the international communities. The majority of AiCN families have worked as journalists, women´s rights activists, Judges, Lawyers, Election Personnel or Human Rights Activists.
As of March 2023, around 70% of the original list are now safely living in Europe, US or Canada. In the majority of the cases, AiCN has actively been invovled at all stages of their process for repatriation, the remaining cases, AiCN lent emotional, moral and sometimes administrative support. AiCN has been directly involved with the removal of around 40 families from Afghanistan to neighbouring countries.
Currently, AiCN has around 15 families waiting on legal pathways in either Pakistan or Iran. The remaining 25-30 families are still stuck in Afghanistan waiting for some type of solution. Given the resources of AiCN and the difficulty of finding legal pathways, AiCN is actively involved with 10 female led families and an additional three families.
At present AiCN is not hopeful in finding traditional pathways for the 18-20 families that remain, and will have to look at other alternatives in the future to maintain their safety.
Power in Numbers
120
Families that AiCN has been supporting since 2021
18
months that AiCN has been supporting afghan families at risk
90
Families are now safe and are no longer needing our support.