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July 27, 2016 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
VOA Dari (Translated by RAWA): According to official statistics of the Afghan government, out of 7.2 million Afghans who have jobs, only 19 percent have job security, leaving 81 percent of them without job security. The statistics show that more than 26 percent of the youth qualified for work are unemployed and 400,000-500,000 qualified Afghans enter the job market every year. Full news...
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July 19, 2016 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RAWA.org: On July 13, 2016, the people of Rostaq district of Takhar province protested against the crimes and savagery of warlords under the leadership of Pirum Qul (supported by Abdul Rashid Dostum) once more. Pirum Qul’s gunmen opened fire on the peaceful protest and injured a number of people, but the people are fed up and have sworn to continue their struggle against the current situation. Full news...
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July 13, 2016 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaama Press (Translated by RAWA): A man in Kabul beat his sister severely and then set her on fire because her fiancé had not given her enough money during the Eid celebrations. The girl, who used the fake name Humaira, told the media that her fiancé had given her some money before Eid and when her brother found out about the small amount of money he had given her, he first beat her, then poured petrol on her and set her on fire. Full news...
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April 24, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Hambastagi.org (Translated by RAWA): On April 24, members and supporters of the Solidarity Party of Afghanistan (SPA) gathered to protest and condemn the dark days of 28th and 27th April. In this gathering there were 1600 participants and the main slogan read: “Let us prosecute the criminals of 27th and 28th April!” Full news...
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April 16, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Hambastagi.org (Translated by RAWA): Members and supporters of the Solidarity Party of Afghanistan (SPA) staged a protest in Shahre Naw Park in Kabul today, to defend the blood of the victims of Badakhshan (the brutal killing of more than 30 soldiers by Taliban and ISIS in an attack on a check post), and Mazar (killing of more than 10 people in a courthouse attack by the Taliban), and to demand the freedom of 31 of our compatriots held hostage by the Taliban (in Zabul province). Full news...
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September 14, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Hambastagi.org (Translated by RAWA): Farah, a province in western Afghanistan along the Iranian border, is one of the most insecure provinces in the country. Its defenseless inhabitants are victims of the treacherous conspiracies of the warmongers every day. Besides the deadly poverty, instability and insecurity that plagues the people of this isolated province, they have witnessed countless instants of bombings by the occupier forces, mass killings and beheadings, suicide bombings, kidnapping of children, and the shooting of their working children by the mercenary Taliban and non-Taliban forces. Full news...
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August 6, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Various sources (Translated by RAWA): A woman known only as Uzra killed four Taliban members last Friday (August 1) in Nooristan province before being killed along with her toddler. According to a reporter from Fars News Agency in Kabul, Abdul Baaqi Nooristani, a top security official in Nooristan province told the media today, “A battle between a woman and Taliban militants continued for a few hours. Four militants were killed by her. She was killed at the end, along with her 3-year-old son.” Full news...
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July 7, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Hambastagi.org (Translated by RAWA): Poverty and hunger can be seen on 50-year-old Ghulam Rasool’s wrinkled face and dry lips from a distance. He lives in Dashte Barchi and is the only one who earns for his family of nine. One of his feet is crippled. He sells smokeless tobacco to feed his children. Full news...
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February 10, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RAWA News: Bulbul Bismillah, who lived in Bangi in Takhar province, was killed by her husband on January 30, 2014. Her sister gave the details of her death and marriage, “She was 25 years old and had been married for two years. She had one child. We had not been in contact with her for a while because her husband did not allow anyone to visit them. We bought them gifts and cloths but her husband returned them... Full news...
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December 14, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC Persian (Translated by RAWA): Officials in Afghanistan’s western Herat province have said that a man cut his wife’s nose and lips with a knife. Sami Wafa, the governor’s spokesman told BBC that the incident had occurred in Injil district near central Herat. Full news...
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November 28, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC Persian (Translated by RAWA): Local officials of Logar province in south eastern Afghanistan say they have found two female corpses. Din Mohammad Darwesh, the spokesperson of the Logar governor told BBC that yesterday, November 27, the bodies of two women were found hanged from a tree in the Baraki Barak district of this province. Full news...
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September 29, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN (Translated by RAWA): Hundreds protested and demanded the public prosecution of the murders of the victims killed during Communist regime period, in Kabul city today. The protest started this morning from the Shahe Do Shamshera ziarat area. They raised slogans such as ‘war criminals and demolishers of our country should be publicly prosecuted’, while heading towards Zarnigar park. Full news...
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September 25, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Afghanpaper.com (Translated by RAWA): An authentic source at the Foreign Ministry of Afghanistan told our honorary correspondent this morning (Monday) that three government ministers were imprisoned for assaulting a Nepali woman. Ghulam Farooq Wardak, the Education Minister, Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal, the Minister of Finance, and Wais Barmak, the Minister of Rural Rehabilitation and Development, were all... Full news...
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January 16, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
VOA Dari (Translated by RAWA): Officials in a human rights office in Daikundi province say that a 15-year old girl was raped in the Directorship Department of Women’s Affairs of this province. Six guards of this office have been arrested on suspicions of being involved. It is not yet clear whether the girl was gang-raped or raped turn by turn, but local authorities have said that her condition is not serious. Full news...
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January 3, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC Persian (Translated by RAWA): Manizha is a 20-year old woman from Moqor area of southern Ghazni province who revealed to BBC how she was constantly tortured by her husband. She was kept in the basement of her home for weeks with her hands and feet tied up. Her husband would beat her with sticks, chains, and even a whip. Manizha’s half-dead body tells her sad tale. Full news...
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December 26, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Afghanpaper (Translated by RAWA): Special forces of the US army raided houses of villagers and separated the men and women of 15 families living in this village. They then raped a number of these women. According to a report in the political section of the Afghanpaper, authentic reports given by the people state that special US forces raped a number of women in a village of Afghanistan, after attacking it. Full news...
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December 23, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Azadiradio.org (Translated by RAWA): A 6-year old boy was raped in the Imam Saheb district of Kunduz province. Amaanuddin Qureshi, the district chief, told Liberty Radio (Dari) that Mohammad Siddique was raped the night before by his cousin who was more than 20-years old. Full news...
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December 22, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Azadiradio.org (Translated by RAWA): Sabera, a girl who was flogged in Ghazni province for having illicit relations with a boy, has criticized the government, National Assembly and the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission. She said that none of these bodies have followed her case. After days of waiting, I finally got to talk to Sabera, this young girl who was flogged by local elders of the Jaghori district, Ghazni. Full news...
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December 10, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC Persian (Translated by RAWA): A number of human rights activists organized a demonstration on the International Human Rights Day, and demanded the prosecution of those who according to them, have committed “war crimes”. Since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948, this day is celebrated every year. Full news...
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October 2, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Killid Group (Translated by RAWA): Violence against women has always existed but is now appearing in new methods. Amputation of ears, nose and fingers are the new methods of violence emerging nowadays. In the most recent such incident, security forces brought a dead woman to Herat Regional Hospital, whose ear and nose had been cut off. Full news...
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July 30, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC Persian & BBC Radio (Translated by RAWA): A year after the rape and murder of a young girl in northern Afghanistan, her family claims the perpetrators of these crimes threaten them and have burnt down their home. The parents of the girl have fled from their home in Rostaq district of Takhar province, along with seven of their children and come to Kabul to follow the case of their daughter. Full news...
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May 29, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Killid Group (Translated by RAWA): A young woman was hung to death by her husband in Ghazni province according to a report of Radio Killid. Shukria Wali, head of the Women’s Affairs of Ghazni, confirmed the news and told the radio that Halima, who was 35-years old, was killed the night before in the Tawghi Sang Masha village of Jaghori district. She said the reason for the murder was domestic violence and her husband was in police custody. Full news...
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May 2, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Salam Watandar (Translated by RAWA): In today’s session of the senate, the head and its members criticized the protest of the Solidarity Party of Afghanistan against the 27th and 28th April, that was held the day before. Hundreds of SPA members condemned the perpetrators of the 27th and 28th April revolutions in their demonstration, and demanded the prosecution of the Jehadi leaders and commanders, members of the Khalq and Parcham parties and the group of Taliban. Full news...
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March 15, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RealNewsNetwork.com: Sonali Kolhatkar is a founding Director of the US-based solidarity organization, Afghan Women’s Mission, which raises funds for social and political women-led projects in Afghanistan. She is co-author of the book, "Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence". She is also the host and Executive Producer of Uprising, heard on KPFK Pacifica Radio. Full news...
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February 29, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RAWA News: Nasreen, a young girl was murdered by local strongmen on February 25, 2012 in Anchagal village, Naray district in Kunar province. The killing was over family disputes that were not made clear. Three years ago the same people shot her with an AK-47 which severely injured her but her brother, Nematullah, saved her by taking her to a hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan. Full news...
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November 29, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN (Translated by RAWA): As a result of the firing of mortars by ISAF forces, three women were killed in one home and two others injured in another. Haji Mohammad Sarwar Khan, one of the tribal elders of the Zheray district, told PAN on 29th November that the incident took place two days back in the Nalghaam village of the district. Full news...
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October 2, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RAWA.org: While Sharia law courts have created a lot of controversy in Britain, they would be even more controversial if people found out that Sharia has led to the legalisation of child marriage in 6 countries. As the vast majority of people seem to be unaware of Sharia’s child marriage dimension, this article only uses mainstream media articles, the UN, a major opinion poll company’s Sharia law polling data... Full news...
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October 2, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RAWA News: It is strange that some communists have decided to make common cause with Islamists against democracies, because Al-Qaeda’s murderous ideology, which influences other Islamists, was partly inspired by the murderous fascist ideology of Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco, as I will now explain. Full news...
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June 28, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AzadiRadio.com (Translated by RAWA): It has been reported from Takhar province that two small girls and a woman had been raped by armed men and some commanders in the past 15 days. Family members of the victims say the rapists were local armed men and commanders and the government has not arrested them. Full news...
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June 14, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Payam-e-Zan: This time, the American invader forces that have no other mission rather than killing and massacre of our innocent compatriots through bombardment and blind firings, turned Takhar province, north of Afghanistan, into slaughter ground. On May 27, 2011, around 11 o’clock in the night, four helicopters landed in Gomali Village of Taliqan, capital city of Takhar, and started house search. Full news...
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