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Women’s protest against the Taliban in Helmand and Samangan provinces
The members of the spontaneous movement of Afghan women fighters in Helmand and Samangan provinces protested against the Taliban and demanded bread, work and freedom for women. On the eve of the one year anniversary of the fall of the country to the Taliban, these women gathered in a closed place and announced their opposition […]
Women of Afghanistan: Episode 7 – Parastoo Saqib
Why the ‘Barbaric’ Practice of Stoning Is Still Used in Afghanistan By Parastoo Saqib In the twenty-first century, Afghans are still being stoned to death, most of them women. They are being punished according to outdated religious teachings and beliefs, which are gaining popularity as the environment worsens for Afghan women. And with the security […]
How can we negotiate with the Taliban? Afghan women know.
Thursday, February 7, 2019 / BY: Palwasha L. Kakar Afghan political leaders met in Moscow this week with Taliban representatives amid new momentum in diplomatic efforts to end Afghanistan’s war. Like other recent discussions, including those between U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and Taliban representatives in Qatar, Afghan women remain almost entirely excluded. Yet mostly unnoticed […]
The Latest
Latest
- In Two Separate Incidents, A Young Girl and A Woman Commit Suicide in Kapisa Province
- The Killing of Three Young Bamiani Workers in Kahmard District of This Province
- Zahra Mohammadi: The Taliban Took Over Eighty Thousand Dollars For My Release
- Expulsion of Girls from an Educational Center in Bamyan After the Taliban Attack
- Showing the dead bodies accused of theft in Herat by the Taliban
- Women’s March in Kabul: “Compatriots, Come along; Rapscallion will always be Rapscallion”
- protest against the decision of the Taliban; At least sixteen university professors have resigned from their positions
- Seventy women and girls were arrested by the Taliban in Daikundi
- First Place in Karate in Canada by a girl from Afghanistan
- Demonstrations of protesting women in Kabul were once again suppressed by the Taliban
- Marzia and Hajar, same class and same seat, and finally slept next to each other for ever
- Suicide attack; The Taliban prevented women from protesting and arrested journalists in the west of Kabul
- An explosion occurres in the Shiite area in the west of Kabul
- Suicide of a man due to economic problems in Takhar
- The murder of a woman in Takhar province
- The Taliban disruptes the protest gathering of Afghan women in support of Iranian women
Health
More Afghan Children Are Out of School, Reversing a Trend
By Rick Gladstone . Even with all the rising measures of mayhem in Afghanistan’s long war — civilian casualties, suicide bombings and refugees, to name a few — the number of children out of school had been falling. Until now. A study released Monday by Unicef shows that Afghanistan’s out-of-school population has risen to 3.7 […]
Media Monitoring
Protesters defy the Hell guards intimidation
Protesters have again taken to the streets in several parts of Afghanistan, defying Taliban pressure to stay at home. Dozens of demonstrators gathered near the Pakistan embassy in Kabul and Taliban gunmen opened fire to disperse them, protesters said. More demonstrations were reported in Parwan and Nimruz provinces. Photos have also emerged showing injuries inflicted […]
Women beaten for demanding their rights
“We want equal rights, we want women in government,” dozens of female protesters chanted as they marched down a street in Kabul on Wednesday. A day earlier, the Taliban had announced their interim cabinet of ministers. There are no women in it, and they’ve also abolished the women’s affairs ministry. “We cannot accept this, and […]
Afghanistan: Shukria Barakzai’s whispered voice notes and dramatic escape
For Shukria Barakzai, 15 August seemed, at first, an unremarkable Sunday morning. A prominent journalist and politician, a former member of the Afghan parliament and ambassador to Norway, she was a frequent traveller. She already had a few bags packed, as she was due to fly to Turkey later that day for a brief trip. […]
How Afghanistan’s media is changing under Taliban rule
The Taliban in Afghanistan are currently on a media offensive to present themselves as a viable, legitimate government. But does their rhetoric match what’s happening on the ground?
The representative of the urban governance network of Khost province is captured by the Taliban
Following targeted assassinations of women; This time, Zahra Jalal, the representative of the urban governance network and the provincial coordinator of Afghan Women News Agency in Khost province, has been captured by the Taliban group. Initial information shows that the Taliban had taken Ms. Jalal and her family members to the Zarghun area of Mohammad […]
Women Calenders
Afghan women’s diary (from August 15 to August 25)
1. The protesting women members of the Afghan Women’s Alliance and Solidarity held a gathering in a closed place in Kabul on the occasion of the anniversary of the fall of the Afghan government to the hands of the Taliban wearing black mourning clothes and announced that in mourning for a year of misery, Afghan […]
Afghan women’s diary (day-counter) under the rule of Taliban from August 15 to August 15
Afghan Women’s News Agency has counted and documented the events related to women from poverty and deprivation to the closure of girls’ schools and women’s protests from August 15th, 2021, the day of the fall of the former regime, to August 15th, 2022, one year since the Taliban took control of the country. The events […]
Women’s calendar(Day Counter) last week (July 9 to July 16)
1. The Taliban denied the reopening of girls’ schools. The official page of the Ministry of Education published a press invitation on Twitter, in which it announced the reopening of girls’ schools on the order of the Taliban leader. But Taliban officials called the letter fake and said that the reopening of girls’ schools is […]
Afghan Women’s Calendar(Day Counter) in the past week (June 17 to June 23)
1. A man killed 9 members of his family in Nimroz province, including his two wives and children. According to security sources, the man was named Waiss and killed all of his family members because his family opposed his third marriage. Two days after the incident, the man’s body was found by locals. He is […]
Day Counter of Women in January 2022
January 1 Murder of 45 journalists in 2021; Afghanistan is at the top. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) says at least 45 journalists and media employees have been killed in 2021 and other 365 are still in prison. Afghanistan tops the list of countries with the highest number of journalists killed with 9 deaths. […]
Day Counter of Women in October Month
October 2 On October 2, unidentified individuals abducted and then killed an 11-year-old girl in Kabul named Forouzan. October 3 The body of a 10-year-old girl was found in a house in Kabul. The girl, whose identity was not disclosed to the media, was stabbed to death. Three women and two men were arrested by […]
Afghanistan Situation and Nurse
Afghanistan is a war-torn country that has undergone tremendous political changes in the last two decades. Health, the provision of health services and health workers, especially nurses and midwives have been affected by these changes. Many significant changes took place after the transitional government of President Karzai and after that during the presidency of Mohammad […]
EU’s queen with a tarnished crown
Queen of Europe was once one of Angela Merkel’s many nicknames. But now Germany’s powerful chancellor is poised to turn her back on politics following this month’s elections, I’m not sure that royal label will stick. True: Angela Merkel is, by far, the longest-serving amongst current EU leaders. She’s participated in an estimated 100 EU […]