In 2008, Barakat launched a teacher training program in human rights in Afghanistan. Working with the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, Barakat reached out to more than 100 participants through six workshops in Kabul. This initiative arose from the understanding that teachers are a powerful medium of raising awareness of human rights and spurring action through students, and we continue to educate both Barakat teachers and other teachers with this training today.
Some of the topics discussed at the workshops are:
- Introduction to the Human Rights Commission
- Human rights culture
- International conventions of human rights
- Understanding and realizing resident rights
- Violence
- Parent's rights
- Daughter’s rights
- Conventions on revoking prejudices against women
- Violence against women
- Forcible marriages
- The current situation of women in Afghanistan, and ways of solving their problems
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Teacher's role in training children to understand their rights
- Children right's conventions
- Justice for children
- Difference of children
- Family in Islam
- Law of avoiding affliction