Protecting Refugees Advancing Human Rights

Womens Empowerment in Afghanistan and Tajikistan for Displaced

Persons through Legal Aid and Training to Combat Violence against
Women

Post-Training Assessment for Training Participants

Kabul, Afghanistan
June 2015
Please answer the following questions to the
best of your ability in the space provided. If
extra space is needed, please add additional
sheets. This assessment is provided to help
the trainers evaluate your understanding of
the material covered during the in-person
training.

Name of Participant

_Fariba Karimi_____________

1. What is the definition of gender-based violence? Where does this

definition come from?
Any physical, psychological and economic violence against a person is
gender-based violence. This definition is mine.
2. What are the forms of gender-based violence? What are examples of
specific acts that constitute gender-based violence?
Forms of violence are psychological, physical, economic and social And the
examples are poverty, illiteracy, and unawareness about laws and Sharia and
rights.
3. What are the causes of gender-based violence?
Unawareness of people (both men and women) about their rights, and they
dont know the rights given to them by law and Sharia. Thats why people
commit violence, and also poverty and illiteracy are other causes of violence.
4. Are any human rights violated by gender-based violence? Please explain
your answer and include any key international instruments that would be
violated.
University of California Hastings College of the Law
200 McAllister Street San Francisco, California 94102
Tel: 415-565-4877 Fax: 415-581-8824 http://cgrs.uchastings.edu

Yes, human rights are violated by gender-based violence.

5. What responsibility do states have to protect human rights? Please

explain your answer.
The states should establish efficient programs and raise the public
awareness about rights through these programs.
6. What are the key domestic laws you learned about during the training to
consider in gender-based violence claims? Please explain why you do or
do not believe that these laws are effective in protecting survivors of
gender-based violence.
Law of elimination of violence against women, penal code, civil law, and
human rights conventions
7. Discuss potential challenges when interviewing and representing a
survivor of trauma and how you would address those challenges.
First we need to understand the clients condition and behave in a way to
earn the clients trust. So that she can tell us her problem without any fear,
and we should assure the client that whatever she tells us will remain
confidential.
8. Discuss how you would provide a survivor-centered approach in working
with a survivor of trauma.
First we create a clam environment and understand the clients problem,
behave in a way that she can tell us all of her problems. Then we give
guidance to the client to solve her problem through institutions.

9. Discuss how you would assess whether your client faces danger or
potentially deadly violence from her abuser.

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Since the client may not have good mental condition, we behave friendly so
that the client can tell us all her problems without any fear. After
understanding the clients problems, we can solve them by law and Sharia.

10. You are an attorney at a law firm and a client comes to you detailing
years of abuse at the hands of her husband. She tells you she is seriously
considering suicide. Can you tell anyone, if at all, about her suicidal
thoughts?
When the client tells us her problem we shouldnt share it without anyone
under any circumstances, because the most important duty of the attorney is
confidentiality and keeping the secrets.
11. Describe the steps you would take when working on a clients case.
Include in your answer a discussion on managing the case as well as case
strategy.
First we come to an agreement and earn the clients trust. Then we tell the
clients problem in judicial session. We try to solve the clients problem
through legal means.
12. In your opinion, what concrete steps could be taken to prevent the
incidence of gender-based violence in your country?
People have to be informed about their rights and illiteracy should be
removed, and people should be given awareness through media and
mosques.

13. A woman suffered a broken limb after a beating by her husband.

Scared that he might hurt her further, she contacted the police out of
desperation but was told to go home because the police does not get
involved in family disputes. In one or two sentences, what
recommendation would you provide when presenting to a UN body?
The police shouldnt behave in this way with a survivor of violence, and
should help her. The police should guide the survivor to the institution that
support womens rights.
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14. As a human rights defender, what steps would you take to assess any
potential risks and to develop an individual security plan?

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