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Restrictions imposed by Taliban
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Restrictions imposed by Taliban on Afghanistan Women
  • AFGHANISTAN: Over 360,000 affected by reduced health services
    May 14, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    IRIN News: The killing and abduction of dozens of health workers in the past two years has prompted officials to shut down at least 36 health facilities in Afghanistan’s volatile southern and eastern provinces, depriving hundreds of thousands of people of basic health services, according to the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH).      Full news...

  • Extreme Poverty Force Afghans to Give Away Children
    May 13, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Pajhwok Afghan News (Translated by RAWA): A family handed over two of its children to another family because they were unable to feed them. The father named Bashir Ahmad lives in Ashaba village in Jabl Saraj District of Parwan province. He said, “I announced my poverty in the Jamay Qal-e-Naw Mosque in Bagram District and some time later a man called Abdul Raziq came and agreed to take away my children and look after them.”      Full news...



  • Rising prices heap pressure on Afghanistan’s destitute
    May 9, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Rising prices heap pressure on Afghanistan’s destitute
    AFP: Shamsuddin, who goes by one name, is among millions struggling to survive in war-ravaged Afghanistan, one of the world's poorest countries where unemployment is 40 percent and half the population is under the poverty line. It is the poorest who are worst hurt by a global rise food prices which have nearly doubled in three years, according to the World Bank.      Full news...



  • A Poor and Starving Afghan Family Sold Children to Survive
    May 2, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    A Poor and Starving Afghan Family Sold Children to Survive
    Tolo TV: In Kabul a family was forced to sell two of their children to buy themselves food. This poor family which lived in a shabby house on a hill was forced to sell its children because of hunger and poverty. This family has six small children and their father is the only bread winner in the family.      Full news...

  • Afghan ‘health link’ to uranium
    April 30, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    One Planet, BBC World Service: Doctors in Afghanistan say rates of some health problems affecting children have doubled in the last two years. Some scientists say the rise is linked to use of weapons containing depleted uranium (DU) by the US-led coalition that invaded the country in 2001.      Full news...

  • Death in childbirth: A health scourge for Afghanistan
    April 30, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Reuters: About 1,600 Afghan women die in childbirth out of every 100,000 live births. In some of the most remote areas, the death rate is as high as 6,500. In comparison, the average rate in developing countries is 450 and in developed countries it is 9. Virtually everyone in Afghanistan can recount a story about a relative dying in childbirth, often from minor complications that can be easily treated with proper medical care.      Full news...

  • Poor diet undermines health of northern Afghans
    April 28, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Reuters: Badakhshan, bordering Tajikistan to the north, is far from the fighting with Taliban insurgents in the south, but is still one of Afghanistan's poorest provinces. Those that fare worst live in the mountains where they are snowed in for up to six months of the year. In outlying districts such as Raghistan, Kohistan and Darwaz, there is little cultivable land and people survive on mulberries and other types of wild food, aid workers say.      Full news...

  • Afghanistan struggles to provide decent healthcare
    April 21, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Reuters: The government says free basic healthcare is available within two hours walking distance to 85 percent of the population, from just 9 percent in 2003. But people say they are far from adequate and decent healthcare is available only to those who can afford to pay, travel to the capital city, or go overseas.      Full news...

  • U.N. says half of Afghan children not in school
    April 21, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    U.N. says half of Afghan children not in school
    Reuters: Half of Afghan children are still not going to school and the biggest group missing out on an education are girls, the United Nations said on Monday."We still have 1.2 million girls of school age who do not have access to school in this country," Catherine Mbengue, head of UNICEF in Afghanistan, told the news conference.      Full news...



  • 8-year Old Girl Raped in Takhar Province
    March 30, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    ATN: An 8-year old girl was raped in the Takhar province. General Ziauddin Mahmoodi, the commander of the police of Takhar said that the man involved has been arrested and is in the custody of the police now. Dr. Ashrafuddin Aini, head of the Civil Hospital of Takhar said that the 8-year old is admitted in this hospital and is under treatment.      Full news...


  • Six civilians killed during US raid in Afghanistan
    March 19, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Six civilians killed during US raid in Afghanistan
    Belfast Telegraph: US soldiers have killed six Afghan civilians during a military raid in the east of the country this morning, according to a local official. A woman and two children are said to be among the dead following the operation in the village of Hom, close to the Pakistani border.      Full news...


  • Gang-rape of young girls in Northern Afghanistan
    February 21, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Gang-rape of young girls in Northern Afghanistan
    RAWA News: A young girl was gang-raped, yet again, in Northern Afghanistan by three men. Bashira, a fourteen year old student of the sixth grade who had come to the city on Feb.18, 2008 to get the aid which was being distributed, was gang raped by three men in Sarpul province.      Full news...

  • Kabul Today: No Trees, No Paved Roads, No Electricity, No Women in Sight --Only Drugs and Guns
    February 20, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Pajamas Media Inc.: I lived in Kabul nearly fifty years ago. It was enchanting and dangerous. I lived on a wide and gracious street lined with trees. We had electricity, phones, hot and cold running water, and marble bathrooms. There was a movie theatre and an American-style cafeteria restaurant. Bazaars flourished, mosques shimmered, a thousand (all male) tea-houses thrived. Barefoot boys scurried bearing tea for businessmen all day long.      Full news...




  • Here, a woman is worth only half a man
    January 23, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    The Deccan Herald: Unicef’s winner of the best picture in 2007 is a chilling reminder of the condition of the region’s child brides. Poverty may have made women and young girls more vulnerable, but the methods of exploitation they suffer take on an altogether different proportion in a country wracked by 30 years of unending conflict.      Full news...








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