Warning: Undefined array key "ads-index-menu" in /home/afghanwo/public_html/en/wp-content/themes/Afghan-Women/category.php on line 17
Women's Rights Activists: Women’s Rights Activists: “The Situation of Afghan Women Is More Tragic Than Portrayed in the Media”
945 Days Passing Since the Deprivation of Girls from the Right to Education in Afghanistan 945 Days Passing Since the Deprivation of Girls from the Right to Education in Afghanistan
Recent Protest Movement "Girls of Kabul" Performs Folkloric Anthem Recent Protest Movement “Girls of Kabul” Performs Folkloric Anthem
Officials in talks to evacuate female football stars from Afghanistan following fears over safety, global players’ union confirms
Football officials are currently in negotiations with governments in an attempt to evacuate female players from Afghanistan following the recapturing of power by the Taliban, as confirmed by the world players’ union. Ever since the group took control of the country, concerns have been widely voiced on the safety of female players who have spoken […]
Trump again attacks Biden for Afghanistan ‘humiliation’
Former US president Donald Trump has once again attacked his Democratic successor Joe Biden over his handling of the retreat of American forces from Afghanistan, calling it “the greatest foreign policy humiliation” in the country’s history. During a rally in Alabama on Saturday, Trump, a Republican, repeatedly blamed Biden for Afghanistan’s fall to the Taliban […]
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 […]
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?
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
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Warning: Undefined variable $additional_loop in /home/afghanwo/public_html/en/wp-content/themes/Afghan-Women/inc/cat-blok.php on line 111
Warning: Attempt to read property "max_num_pages" on null in /home/afghanwo/public_html/en/wp-content/themes/Afghan-Women/inc/cat-blok.php on line 111