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Theatre of the Oppressed was born in 1971, in Brazil, under the very young form of Newspaper Theatre , with the specific goal of dealing with local problems – soon, it was used all over the country. Forum Theatre came into being in Peru, in 1973, as part of a Literacy Program; we thought it would be good only for South America– now it is practiced in more than 70 countries.
In Europe, TO expanded and the Rainbow of Desire came into being – first to understand psychological problems, later even to create characters in any play. Back in Brazil, the Legislative Theatre was born to help the Desire of the population to become Law – which it did at last 13 times. Right now, the Subjunctive Theatre is coming slowly into being.
We discovered that all those forms, independently where they had been created, could be developed and used all around the world, because they are simply a Human Language.
 
 
   
Events
Transitional Justice Serves to Heal Wounds of the Oppressed

Emerging from decades of war and conflict, Afghan people have always dreamed an end to culture of impunity and establishment of rule of law, which remain central to shaping a peaceful Afghanistan with democratic governance. Transitional justice must be at the core of any peace efforts and bids to promote national reconciliation. Peace can not be ensured unless victims are provided with reparations and a public platform.   Since its establishment, Afghanistan Human Rights and Democracy Organization (AHRDO)  has provided participatory theater events in the country to provide opportunity for the truths to be told and heard and exploring new ways of living for the victims and survivors of thirty years of conflict in the country. AH 58-89 is a theatre play based on the script by Irish playwright Dave Duggan. It was later adapted to the Afghan context and translated into Dari and Pashto by Afghanistan Human Rights and Democracy Organization (AHRDO). A in the play signifies the start of year 57 and H represents the end of year 89.  On Friday, May 28, 2010, play AH 58-89 was organized at Marifat High School (MHS) by AHRDO with the cooperation of Open Society Institute (OSI) and MHS. The event was attended by 250 participants including officials from educational centers, social activists, teachers and students, journalists and civil society and human rights activists from different countries.

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Participatory Theater Festival

In order to promote the cause of peace, there continues to remain a great sense of need to rekindle the hopes of victims and help them survive the brutal consequences of war. Successful peace-oriented efforts can not ignore victims and survivors of conflicts. Since its establishment, Afghanistan Human Rights and Democracy Organization (AHRDO)  has pioneered in holding participatory events in the country to provide opportunity for the truths to be told and heard and exploring new ways of living for the victims and survivors of thirty years of conflict in the country. Participatory theater functions as an effective tool for deeper understanding of sufferings and consequences of war, which help figure out effective solutions to the problems, transform conflict and promote peace. On Thursday, May 08, 2010, after a six-day workshop, which was conducted for a group of female and male victims of war by Social Association of Afghan Justice Seekers (SAAJS), a theater festival was held at the office of Foundation of Solidarity for Justice (FSFJ).

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Play development on Forced Marriage with Skatiestan

 After 8-days intensive training related to participatory theatre techniques, Skatiestan ‘s staffs   came up finally with great initiative to develop a participatory theatre play which was inspired directly by a true story of female participant being the eyewitness of this forced marriage.

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Youth Acting Troupe Theatre of Oppressed Training (Bamiyan)
This workshop was also organized by AHRDO, with support of ICTJ / AIHRC in which a group of about 8 people participated. They were very responsive and, though the specific techniques were unfamiliar, they were very comfortable with the theatrical forms including Image Theatre.  
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Fanayee / Equal Access Actors Theatre of Oppressed . Training (Kabul)
This workshop was for about 20 professional an actors under the leadership of Mr. Fanayee, who is  the most famous actor in Afghanistan.  He definitely was the patriarch of his regionally based team of actors who tour the country with scripted, often social issue-based plays.  
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AHRDO International Performance.

The experts’ team of Afghanistan Human Rights and Democracy Organization (AHRDO) have been officially invited by Brown University, 

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AHRDO/FOSI Transitional Justice Program. 

Recently, Foundation for Open Society Institute (FOSI), a Swiss charitable foundation awarded Afghanistan Human Rights & Democracy Organization

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New York Training notice

Mr. Salim, one of the AHRDO Executive Member and Playback Theatre Practitioner has been invited to attend The Centre for Playback Theatre’s

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New Women Leadership Society

On a purely new initiative to promote women leadership in Afghanistan, AHRDO&FES in collaboration with Kabul University have begun to conduct

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