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August 5, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: More than 100 people, many of them widows, called for international help in identifying remains found in the latest mass grave to be uncovered in Afghanistan. Full news...
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July 29, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: An 18-year-old married woman hanged herself to death last night in Baraki Barak district of Logar province. Full news...
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July 29, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: 'The last day she came to the school, instead of answering the questions, in her Chemistry exam paper she wrote that she would never come to school again', says Frohar about the late Farida. A student of class tenth at Khadijatulkobra high school, located in the center of Kundoz province, Frohar was class-fellow and best friend of 18 year old Farida who has committed suicide on July 11, 2007. Full news...
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July 19, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: Flooding, armed conflict and population displacements are factors likely to increase malaria cases in Afghanistan this year, public health officials warn. "In 14 high-risk provinces the number of malaria patients will surpass that of 2006," Abdulwase Ashaa, director of the national anti-malaria department, told IRIN on 19 July in Kabul. Full news...
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July 11, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Deccan Chronicle: Unable to scrounge together the $165 he needed to repay a loan to buy sheep, Nazir Ahmad made good on his debt by selling his 16-year-old daughter to marry the lender's son. Full news...
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July 9, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CTV.ca News: A growing number of Afghan women are attempting to escape a life of abuse by setting themselves on fire, a study by a human rights group has found. Full news...
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July 9, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CTV News: She was once an attractive girl. Her husband's family paid the equivalent of about $7,000 as a dowry, and at the age of 14, Bora Gul Heha was sent off to get married. She was strong and healthy and would provide the family with many sons and daughters. Full news...
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July 2, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: Fatama's husband left home one night to smuggle drugs from their mud-thatch border village into Iran. The next morning, her brother-in-law gave her the news: Her husband had been killed. Fatama joined hundreds of other bereaved women in Bunyat, known locally as a "widows village" because so many of its men have died during Afghanistan's long wars, or because of a more recent plague _ the highly profitable but dangerous business of opium and heroin smuggling. Full news...
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June 30, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Javno.com: I explained to him that I was writing a book about Afghan women. We exchanged a number of stories. During the conversation, his eyes browsed around the landscape which was in front of us. In one moment there was silence. He lit a cigarette and then raised his hand, pointing at something in the distance. Full news...
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June 26, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: Farida Nekzad, editor of Afghanistan's independent news agency Pajhwok, receives death threats on her cell phone during the funeral of a fellow female journalist, Zakia Zaki, who was slain by gunmen earlier in the month. Full news...
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June 22, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
World Politics Review: Thirteen-year-old Morvary's face had melted away as a candle does, with only the faintest of breaths as proof she was still alive after setting herself ablaze. Full news...
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June 19, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Daily Telegraph.au: THE United States is making a mockery of democracy and the war on terrorism by supporting corrupt Afghan MPs who are criminals and warlords, said an outspoken Afghan politician, who has been removed from parliament. Full news...
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June 19, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: LOGAR - On 12 June two gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on a crowd of female students coming out of high school in the central province of Logar. Three schoolgirls were killed and five wounded. Bilqees' 13-year-old daughter, Shukria, was one of the three killed. The bereaved mother gave IRIN an account of the day her daughter was killed. Full news...
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June 17, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
US State Department Trafficking in Persons Report: Afghanistan is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and involuntary servitude. Afghan children are trafficked internally and to Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Zimbabwe for commercial sexual exploitation, forced marriage to settle debts or disputes, forced begging, debt bondage, service as child soldiers, or other forms of involuntary servitude. Full news...
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June 12, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Gunmen riding on a motorbike fired at girls outside a school in Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing two and wounding six, authorities said. The attack took place in Logar province, south of the capital, Kabul, at the end of the school day. The attackers fled, they said. Full news...
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June 12, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
SPIEGEL ONLINE: More and more people in Afghanistan are using opium as a painkiller due to a severe lack of medical supplies in the country. Some mothers are even giving it to their children, much to the concern of the UN. Full news...
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June 7, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Times: The rendezvous is clandestine. A voice on the telephone instructs us to drive to a point beside a dusty highway cutting though the suburbs of Kabul. A dark-blue, four-wheel drive pulls up. Inside, a young gunman checks our identities before ordering us to follow. We drive through alleyways and stop beside the high gates of an anonymous compound. Full news...
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June 6, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: KABUL - Unidentified gunmen shot dead an Afghan woman journalist, the second such killing in less than a week, officials said on Wednesday. Zakia Zaki, who also served as headmistress of a school, ran a private radio station partially funded by a Western media group. Full news...
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June 2, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Canberra Times: FOR once and it will only be once I was relieved to see women fully covered in burqas. With no eyes, no face and no body, they were rendered invisible as people. No longer individuals, they instead looked like a pack of walking blue tents. And that's just as well. Full news...
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May 29, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: Sadaf started consuming opium seven years ago after she could not find any medicine to overcome a headache that had bothered her for weeks. "When I first smoked opium I felt dizzy for a while, but did not have a headache - so I continued," the mother of four told IRIN in the Yamgan District of Afghanistan's northeastern Badakshan province. Full news...
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May 24, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Rabble News: The expulsion of this outspoken feminist illustrates the hollowness of the claims of women's advancement under occupation, something that is confirmed by human rights reports that tell of continuing women's inequality. Full news...
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May 22, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Independent: The most outspoken female MP in Afghanistan has been expelled from parliament after saying proceedings had descended to a level "worse than a zoo". The views of Malalai Joya, in a television interview, outraged fellow parliamentarians, who immediately voted to suspend her from the house for the rest of her five-year term. Some even demanded that she should be brought before a court for defamation and stripped of the right to stand again as a candidate. Full news...
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May 17, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Independent: Glass lifts carry people up to the second floor of the shopping mall where gold jewellery and Levi's jeans are being sold in bright new stores. A large poster of a woman in a miniskirt hugging a man is plastered outside a shoe store while music blares from the mall's speakers. But outside, just around the corner, women are begging on the streets. They are the hidden face of modern Kabul. Full news...
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April 25, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Press TV: A UN official has called for outside investment in women's health in Afghanistan to curb high rates of maternal deaths in the war-ravaged country. Full news...
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April 16, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: A man allegedly slaughtered his 14-year-old wife in Mohammad Agha district of the central Logar province last night, police said. Full news...
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April 3, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: A 20-year-old woman was burnt by her in-laws over family dispute in the eastern province of Kunar. Full news...
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March 16, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Baku Sun: One woman committed suicide by setting herself ablaze after her father-in-law tried to rape her. Another set herself on fire because her brothers would not let her marry, preferring that she remain their servant at home. Yet another told her mother before she died that her husband beat her daily. Full news...
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March 8, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: As a woman encouraged by relatives to marry her stalker - who was 20 years her senior, had three other wives and now beats her regularly - Qamar found it preposterous that anyone would ever celebrate her existence. Full news...
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March 8, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: Of all her desires, Fahima, 17, longs most for a life free of violence. "I was put into chains for a whole month by my father. I ran away twice but was returned home by the police. Everybody says I am the guilty one, that my father has the right to beat me," she said. Full news...
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March 7, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Daily Telegraph: MALALAI Joya says her mother worries about her - particularly when she travels to foreign countries. But when you consider that the 28-year-old youngest member of the Afghan Parliament has survived four assassination attempts in her own country, you would think her trips abroad would come as a welcome relief to her mum. Full news...
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