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AWCCI Second 2019 Consulting session with Businesswomen 20 Feb 2019

AWCCI Second 2019 Consulting session with Businesswomen

Afghanistan Women Chamber of Commerce and Industries held second 2019 consulting session on January 27, 2019 at AWCCI central office. The main purposes of the session were sharing 2018 accomplishments and commenting on 2019 strategic plan, networking between businesswomen and through this dividing them into sectorial and advocacy associations. In this session, AWCCI leadership and […]

Afghan Women ‘Concerned’ As Peace Efforts Stir New Hopes 20 Feb 2019

Afghan Women ‘Concerned’ As Peace Efforts Stir New Hopes

The women said the politicians, who will attend Moscow talks, should not compromise on democracy and women’s rights in the peace talks as they believe that these values have been achieved after tremendous sacrifices by Afghans. From almost 60 people representing mainstream political parties in the Moscow talks, three are women, as some participants of […]

Twenty Women Who Are Changing the World 20 Feb 2019

Twenty Women Who Are Changing the World

By: Jennifer Gamboa-Haker Throughout my career, there have been many women who have encouraged and inspired me to be better. Today, I’m proud to celebrate twenty such women as they graduate from the PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS® program. PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS® – a program within Institute for Economic Empowerment of Women (IEEW) – provides opportunities for […]

How can we negotiate with the Taliban? Afghan women know. 20 Feb 2019

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 […]

Will There be Peace for Women in Afghanistan? 20 Feb 2019

Will There be Peace for Women in Afghanistan?

A peace deal in Afghanistan – for years seeming hopelessly elusive – may now be on the horizon. After 17 years of fighting in Afghanistan, the United States is bringing new urgency to negotiating with the Taliban and is proclaiming progress. But Afghan women are right to fear that a peace agreement may not mean […]

‘The Taliban took years of my life’: the Afghan women living in the shadow of war 20 Feb 2019

‘The Taliban took years of my life’: the Afghan women living in the shadow of war

Homeira Qaderi was ironing her headscarf for school when her father came to tell her she would no longer need it, because the Taliban had captured her hometown. For the next five years the group’s harsh rules meant she barely left the house. A generation of women have grown up in Afghanistan since the Taliban […]

Humira Saqib: Unveiling Women’s Issues 20 Feb 2019

Humira Saqib: Unveiling Women’s Issues

Humira Saqib is the Director of Afghan Women’s News Agency, the only news agency in Afghanistan that focuses solely on women’s issues. With over 10 years’ experience as a journalist, Humira founded her company in 2012 after following her passion to report and emphasize women’s issues and events in Afghanistan and globally. Humira and her […]

Road construction contracts worth AFN 178 million approved 05 Sep 2018

Road construction contracts worth AFN 178 million approved

KABUL (SW) – The Ministry of Public Works on Tuesday inked deals with private firms for road construction worth AFN 178 million. Mehdi Rouhani, spokesman for the MoPW, said these projects would be executed in Jawzjan, Bamyan and Ghazni provinces. He said the funds for these projects would be provided by the World Bank via […]

Haqqani’s Deadly Legacy Continues To Shape The War In Afghanistan 05 Sep 2018

Haqqani’s Deadly Legacy Continues To Shape The War In Afghanistan

Elderly, ill, and partially paralyzed, the founder of one of Afghanistan’s most notorious and brazen extremist organizations had been out of the insurgency game for years. But Jalaluddin Haqqani leaves behind a legacy of deadly violence that threatens to live on for decades. Haqqani, whose death at the age of 72 was announced on September […]

SindDokht Center for Intellectual Development offecialy  opened 05 Sep 2018

SindDokht Center for Intellectual Development offecialy opened

SinDukht Center for Intellectual Development (CID) has been established to provide a platform for women to develop thinking process. The aim is to enhance networking, capacity building, pave the way to women to access to equal resources and information and establishment of a center for research. The Center has officially opened on Aug 30 2018 […]


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