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Day Counter of Women in January 2022 04 Mar 2022

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 28 Feb 2022

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 […]

The Taliban flogged four women in Baghlan for not having Mahram 23 Feb 2022

The Taliban flogged four women in Baghlan for not having Mahram

by: Afghan Women News Mahram: Husband or with whom marriage is prohibited. According to local sources in Baghlan province, local Taliban officials flogged four women in a field court in Pul-e-Khumri on Monday (Feb 21, 2022). The women went to the bazaar in Pul-e-Khumri to shop and were then questioned by Taliban members for not […]

Forced confessions of women 23 Feb 2022

Forced confessions of women

by: Tabasum Mehri The Taliban’s interior affairs ministry is said to have released a video of prisoner women confessing to Taliban, in which women spoke of being encouraged and coerced by others to protest against the Taliban government. In a video released by the Taliban’s Interior Affairs Ministry, girls in Taliban custody say women living […]

From family oppositions and suicide attempts to standing up against forced marriage 21 Feb 2022

From family oppositions and suicide attempts to standing up against forced marriage

One cold winter day, we were sitting by the window in the sun, sipping freshly brewed cardamom black tea. With a deep look and an energetic smile, she started talking to me and wanted to tell everything that has happened to her so far. Her name is Fatima, but everyone calls her Faati. A girl […]

For Ukraine’s female soldiers, armed conflict is not the only danger 21 Feb 2022

For Ukraine’s female soldiers, armed conflict is not the only danger

Near the frontline in Donbas, Ukraine, 24-year-old Anastasia is a radio station operator, tasked with making sure that soldiers at the front are able to communicate with each other. Stationed near the city of Mayorsk, where several soldiers have lost their lives in recent months, she joined up six years ago against the wishes of […]

Mysterious death of a woman in Bamyan province 21 Feb 2022

Mysterious death of a woman in Bamyan province

Local Taliban officials in Bamyan province say a 20-year-old woman committed suicide in Waras district (Saturday, February 20, 2022). Bamyan governor’s spokesman Sabour Saighani told the media that the woman died in Chahar Nawor village of Takht area of Varas district. According to Saighani, a black spot was observed in the woman’s neck and her […]

Two girls were killed in two consecutive days in Mazar-e-Sharif 12 Feb 2022

Two girls were killed in two consecutive days in Mazar-e-Sharif

A source who did not want to be named, says: In the past two days, two girls named Zahra and Fazila were mysteriously killed in two consecutive days. Citing from this source, yesterday at 8:00 AM in the Muttahed town of Mazar-e-Sharif, located on the Tasaddi bridge, Fazila Ahmadi, who was waiting for minibus on […]

She was sold to a stranger so her family could eat as Afghanistan crumbles 04 Nov 2021

She was sold to a stranger so her family could eat as Afghanistan crumbles

(CNN)Parwana Malik, a 9-year-old girl with dark eyes and rosy cheeks, giggles with her friends as they play jump rope in a dusty clearing. But Parwana’s laughter disappears as she returns home, a small hut with dirt walls, where she’s reminded of her fate: she’s being sold to a stranger as a child bride. The […]

Afghanistan Situation and Nurse 01 Nov 2021

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 […]


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