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A Bamyani student girl dies far from home 31 May 2022

A Bamyani student girl dies far from home

Zahra Hussaini, a Bamyan resident who recently studied public health at the Asian University for Women in Bangladesh, died of a heart attack while presenting a presentation. Zahra was 19 years old. She had previously studied economics at Bamyan University. One of Zahra’s classmates says that after many efforts, she managed to get a scholarship […]

Liah Jawad from Afghanistan was recognized as the winner of the 2022 FLD award of human rights defender 28 May 2022

Liah Jawad from Afghanistan was recognized as the winner of the 2022 FLD award of human rights defender

Lia Ghazanfar Jawad from Afghanistan is the winner of the annual FLD or Front Line (Human) Rights Defender statue recognized by the Human Rights Defenders Organization. Liah Jawad, a human rights activist, is in charge of the Feminine Solidarity for Justice Organization and an elected member of the Secretariat of the Joint Civil Society Working […]

Anisa Shahid was recognized as the winner of the International Center for Journalists’ annual award 25 May 2022

Anisa Shahid was recognized as the winner of the International Center for Journalists’ annual award

The International Center for Journalists announced the list of annual winners of this organization today (Tuesday, May 24, 2022). Anisa Shahid, an Afghan journalist, is one of seven award-winning journalists. According to the list, a team of Ukrainian journalists and a journalist from El Salvador, along with Anisa Shahid, an Afghan journalist, have been recognized […]

Female students: We were told that you are not allowed to enter the university until you wear a black veil 21 May 2022

Female students: We were told that you are not allowed to enter the university until you wear a black veil

A number of female students at Kabul University of Education say that the university guards did not allow female students with colored tents to enter. Negina, a student told the Afghan Women News Agency that despite wearing a black hijab and wearing only a light pink veil, university guards barred her from entering and confiscated […]

The Taliban dissolve the Human Rights Commission in Afghanistan 16 May 2022

The Taliban dissolve the Human Rights Commission in Afghanistan

The Taliban-led government disbanded six former offices of the former government. In an official letter obtained by Afghan Women News, six offices, including the Human Rights Commission and the National Reconciliation High Council, were dissolved. According to the letter, the Human Rights Commission, the National Security Council, the National Reconciliation High Council, the Constitutional Oversight […]

Murder of a young girl and a man in two separate incidents in Daikundi province 15 May 2022

Murder of a young girl and a man in two separate incidents in Daikundi province

Local sources in Daikundi province told the Afghan Women News Agency that a 20-year-old girl was killed in Sangtakht and Bandar and a 55-year-old man was killed in Miramur, Daikundi. A young girl two days ago (Thursday, May 12) was killed by a Kalashnikov in Dahan Gharak village of Sangakht and Bandar districts. The motive […]

The mysterious death of a teenage girl in Bamyan 15 May 2022

The mysterious death of a teenage girl in Bamyan

Local sources in Bamyan province report the mysterious death of a teenage girl in the Waras district of the province. But Taliban security officials in Bamyan say a teenage girl has committed suicide in the province. A statement issued by the Taliban Police Command for Bamyan province said that the incident took place on Friday […]

The Taliban have expelled a British documentary filmmaker from Afghanistan under threat 14 May 2022

The Taliban have expelled a British documentary filmmaker from Afghanistan under threat

Isobel Jung, a British journalist and documentary filmmaker, reported her threatened expulsion from Afghanistan by the Taliban. Isobel Jung, a British journalist and documentary filmmaker, reported her threatened expulsion from Afghanistan by the Taliban. The reporter tweeted today (Friday, May 13, 2022) that the Taliban had ordered her to leave Afghanistan without questioning because of […]

Compulsory hijab for women in Afghanistan and a meeting of the UN Security Council on the subject 11 May 2022

Compulsory hijab for women in Afghanistan and a meeting of the UN Security Council on the subject

The UN Security Council is announcing a meeting as restrictions on women and girls in Afghanistan increase and the Arabic hijab is imposed on them. The meeting is proposed by the Norwegian Permanent Mission to the United Nations tomorrow (Thursday, May 12, 2022). The delegation wrote in a tweet that the purpose of tomorrow’s meeting […]

Women protest in Kabul in connection with the Taliban’s mandatory hijab order 11 May 2022

Women protest in Kabul in connection with the Taliban’s mandatory hijab order

A number of protesting women members of the “Spontaneous Movement of Protesting Women of Afghanistan” today (Tuesday, May 10, 2022) protested against the Taliban’s mandatory hijab order, but were surrounded by Taliban members and detained for two hours and then released. But reporters who came to cover the women’s protests were arrested and taken to […]


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