name: Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission
text: The Education Unit is one of the five programme units of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission that is actively involved in promotion and awareness raising of human rights at various levels. The Human Rights Education Unit has devised its programmatic interventions to enhance the patterns of attitudinal and behavioral changes through institutionalization of human rights. The Education Unit has been closely working with the AIHRC support units of Research and Policy and Publication and Media.
  
  They hope to institutionalize human rights and replace prevailing culture of war & violence to a culture of human rights and peace throughout the country. 
  
  Their women's rights unit aims to promote, ensure women's rights and monitoring the situation of women in Afghanistan and also make an efforts to eliminate/reduce the discriminatory attitudes towards women in Afghan society. 
  
  Another major task of AIHRC is to provide relevant protection for the child Right in Afghanistan and to assist Government and non Government organizations and associations to develop a joint policy for the protection of the rights of the children.
  
  Their programme of transiational justice seeks  to enhance respect for human rights and national reconciliation in the country. This will be done through investigation, recording and publication of the truth and through the establishment of accountability for the past crimes such as crime against humanity and gross violations of human rights in accordance with international law, Islamic principles, Afghan tradition and the will of the people of Afghanistan.
  
  The AIHRC is also mandated to monitor the situation of human rights, where the liberty of people have been denied, restricted or violated in police custody, detention centers, prisons, juvenile prisons and other situations where human rights are vulnerable.
  
  http://www.aihrc.org.af/