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YWC is an independent non-profit organization consisting of dozens of volunteer women and male advocates across Afghanistan. It was established to empower women across the country and recruit them to the struggle for gender equality. Read more.

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On Saturday, 14th April 2012, members of Young Women for Change (YWC) in Afghanistan were joined by other youth in a walk to protest against violence against women.

YWC members wore national Afghan clothing for their 'walk for justice'. The Afghan National Police provided security and media representatives also attended the walk.

The following statement was prepared by YWC...

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By Noorjahan Akbar:

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'This is My City too' is a documentary produced by Anita Hadiary, the co-founder of Young Women for Change. The documentary, the production of which was funded by Anita herself, includes interviews with people of different classes, occupations, sexes, and ethnicities who condemned street harassment and told their views on why it exists.

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I felt like my heart was going to melt down when we posted a poster and a shopkeeper who was there watching us posted it, couldn’t read it, and asked other person to read it.

When he learned what the poster said, he started fixing the poster and glued it harder on the wall. Two policemen walked to the other side of the road to read our posters.

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Today, about twenty five people, men and women, got together to glue posters about violence against women and education for women on their city’s walls....

We approached a shopkeeper to ask permission to post one of the posters on his wall...

“I am against women. Don’t put this one on my walls. A man is a man. If he is angry, he beats. That is what men do. I am against this,” he said angrily.

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