The Afghanistan Women's Light of Freedom Movement Calls for Scholarships for Women and Girls in Afghanistan The Afghanistan Women’s Light of Freedom Movement Calls for Scholarships for Women and Girls in Afghanistan
Malala Yousofzai: The Voices of Muslim Leaders for Afghan Girls Must Be Raised Malala Yousofzai: The Voices of Muslim Leaders for Afghan Girls Must Be Raised
Domestic Violence Crisis and Educational Deprivation of Girls in Afghanistan Domestic Violence Crisis and Educational Deprivation of Girls in Afghanistan
‘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 […]
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
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
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 […]
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 […]
Afghan activists live, unconventional lives
The murder of Farkhunda Malikzada, an Afghan religious scholar who had dedicated her life to fighting superstitions within the religious community, shocked the world in March 2015. She was killed by a group of more than 100 men who beat her to death, ran her over with a car and then set her on fire. […]
Afghanistan failing to protect women’s rights activists, report says
In May 2010, when Humira Saqib launched a magazine called Negah-e Zan, or Vision of Women, she knew she would face opposition. She never imagined she’d be forced to flee Afghanistan. Almost immediately after publishing the inaugural issue, which included an article criticizing comments by a religious council in the northern province of Baghlan, Saqib […]