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  • Resilience of Girls in the Three and a Half Years of Taliban Rule 29 Jan 2025

    Resilience of Girls in the Three and a Half Years of Taliban Rule
    Resilience of Girls in the Three and a Half Years of Taliban Rule

    After three and a half years of Taliban rule in Afghanistan, schools, universities, and educational institutions have been closed to women and girls. Their social, economic, and cultural activities have come to a complete standstill.

UNESCO’s Support for Female Journalists in Afghanistan 08 Jul 2024

UNESCO's Support for Female Journalists in Afghanistan UNESCO’s Support for Female Journalists in Afghanistan

Heather Barr: Excluding Women from the Doha Meeting is a Betrayal of Women’s Rights and Dignity 25 Jun 2024

Heather Barr: Excluding Women from the Doha Meeting is a Betrayal of Women's Rights and Dignity Heather Barr, associate director of the Women's Rights Division at Human Rights Watch, in connection with the third Doha Meeting, posted a message on their social media page, stating that no Afghan woman has been invited to represent Afghan women at the third Doha Meeting, and women's rights issues have been omitted from the agenda of this conference. Ms. Barr further added that she had hoped for progress from the United Nations in this regard through the presence of women at the second Doha Meeting, but in the third Doha Meeting, the United Nations did not invite any Afghan women. The associate director of the Women's Rights Division at Human Rights Watch has described this action of the United Nations as a betrayal of women's and girls' rights worldwide. However, some women's rights activists in Afghanistan argue that this action by the United Nations was unexpected for them, and the exclusion of women from the third Doha Meeting signifies that the world and the global community have left Afghan women alone. Regarding the exclusion of women from the third Doha Meeting, the Research and Development Institution has released a series of visual messages showing one hundred Afghan women from all 28 provinces of Afghanistan, who are calling for the boycott of the upcoming Doha conference. Furthermore, some activists and Afghan policymakers are also demanding the boycott of the third Doha Meeting. Heather Barr: Excluding Women from the Doha Meeting is a Betrayal of Women’s Rights and Dignity

Recruitment of Female Teachers in Ghazni Province Suspended until Further Notice 13 Jun 2024

Local sources in Ghazni province have reported the suspension of the recruitment of female teachers in girls' schools by the Taliban group in this province. Recruitment of Female Teachers in Ghazni Province Suspended until Further Notice

Human Desire to Maintain Sacred Ignorance 29 Jul 2021

Human Desire to Maintain Sacred Ignorance

This is more common in traditional societies and easily closes the windows of reform and change to human beings and prevents human to even think about the reality of phenomena. That is because deep thinking causes question to the credibility of traditions. Perhaps one of the problems in today’s traditional societies is the excessive sanctity […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Afghan activists live, unconventional lives 05 Sep 2018

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 05 Sep 2018

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 […]