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April 12, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Civil society and human rights activists on Friday expressed their deep concern over increasing murders of women and rising tendency of suicide among them in northern Jawzjan province, where five women were found dead over the past three weeks. Four women were found dead in Aqcha district and one in Shiberghan, the provincial capital, where police had arrested a man for beheading his wife over “moral crime”. Full news...
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April 9, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: The 21-year-old Afghan woman said she fled her abusive husband only to be raped at gunpoint by a stranger who was supposed to help her. The man then settled in front of a TV set, putting the gun on a table by his side. Choosing her moment, Mariam grabbed it and shot her assailant in the head, then turned the gun on herself. Full news...
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April 2, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: An alarming 40,000 case of violence against women has been recorded by the AIHRC (Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission) since it was established in 2002. The attackers in a majority of cases are the men in their families. The AIHRC is conducting a national inquiry into violence against women, the results of which will be published this year. Full news...
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April 1, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) on Monday raised concerns at growing violence against women by irresponsible armed groups in central Daikundi province. Mohammad Jawad Dadgar, AIHRC provincial head, said his office had recorded 126 cases of violence against women last year, compared with 60 in 2011. The cases include suicide, murder, divorce and beatings. Full news...
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March 31, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: The sale and exchange of women as goods is rampant in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province with as many as two women traded per day, according to the findings of a sociology researcher. In a report obtained by TOLOnews, researcher Assadullah Ahmadi stated that he found some women had been traded up to five times in three Nangarhar districts... Full news...
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March 21, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Huffington Post: Badakhshan -a beautiful province of Afghanistan nestled in the lap of Hindu-Kush Mountains is surrounded by gorgeous snow-caped mountains, splendid green valleys, turbulent rivers and fascinating lakes. Badakhshan came in the limelight of both national and international media in 2002, when the Ministry of Public Health Afghanistan discovered that Badakhshan had the highest rate of maternal mortality in the world: 6,500 out of every 100,000 women die during child birth. Full news...
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March 17, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Twenty-three women and five men have lost their lives to domestic violence in western Farah province over the past year, an official said on Sunday. Included in the 154 cases of violence are the killings of 23 women, 64 divorce incidents and three instances of self-immolation, the women’s affairs director said. Full news...
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March 12, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: Sadaf Ahmadi*, 18, from the northern Afghan province of Badakshan, has arrived battered and bruised at a women’s refuge centre in Faizabad. It is her fifth such visit. Every time it is the same. Staff at the centre, run by Women for Women, an Afghan NGO, try to offer support, but every previous time local community leaders or the government courts send her back to her husband and the beatings continue. Full news...
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March 10, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Violence against women has dramatically increased in eastern provinces, where 220 cases were registered since the start of this year, compared to 40 incidents during the same period in 2012, officials said on Sunday. Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC)’s women wing head for eastern provinces, Sabrina, told a gathering marking the international women’s day, there were a total of 170 incidents... Full news...
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March 8, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: When I got married at the age of 14, I didn’t know that my husband used drugs. When I asked him why he was using heroin, he told me lies – he told me that he just smoked cigarettes, not that he was addicted to drugs. When he came home after he used drugs, he would usually beat me. Sometimes he would disappear for months at a time. Full news...
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March 8, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Afghan teenager Shakila was shot in the back 13 months ago in the house where she worked as a maid for a wealthy local leader in one of the most progressive provinces of Afghanistan. Her murderer has never been arrested, and her family’s search for justice has laid bare the complex web of grinding poverty, attitudes towards women and a culture of immunity that plagues much of the country’s legal system. Full news...
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March 2, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Digital Journal: Even though the Taliban government in Afghanistan fell more than ten years ago, the justice system is still discriminatory in its treatment of women as is the legal system. Al Jazeera reporter, Jennifer Glasse reports from Herat at a women’s jail. Many Afghan women are in jail for fleeing domestic abuse or violence. Full news...
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February 21, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
A man has murdered his wife with a razor blade after prolonged domestic quarrels arising from financial difficulties, Kabul Police officials said Thursday. “This heart-wrenching and tragic incident took place in Zone 7 of Kabul city. The people of the area informed us, and the police reached the area within a short time and arrested the man before he managed to escape,”... Full news...
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February 20, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RT: Violence against women and girls in Afghanistan is growing. A UN report says crimes against females jumped by 20 per cent last year, adding that the Taliban and other insurgent groups were responsible for 81 per cent of civilian casualties in 2012. The annual report on the Protection of Civilians in armed conflict, released Tuesday, said that more than 300 women and girls were killed in 2012 as a result of targeted killings by insurgents. Full news...
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February 19, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Examiner.com: Hamid Karzai, president of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, has endorsed the nation’s Ulema Council’s ruling in accordance with Islamic Sharia Law that approves of wife beating and the forced segregation of the sexes. As reported by the Associated Press via the Washington Post, Karzai’s endorsement is part of his national reconciliation outreach to the Taliban. Full news...
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February 17, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A woman was beheaded by unidentified men inside her house in the northern province of Jawzjan, officials said on Sunday. The incident occurred on Sunday morning soon after the husband of the 27-year-old left home, the administrative head of Khoshab district, Mohammad Zahir Nazari, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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February 11, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Friday Magazine: High barricades and blast-proof walls are a common sight in Kabul, and it is impossible to travel through the Afghan capital without encountering a barrage of police and private security checkpoints. There is an overwhelming sense of unease every time you stop at each one, but these are just some of the precautions taken for security reasons... Full news...
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January 31, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: The stitches and bandages are gone, but scars streak across one side of the girl’s face, across her cheek and behind her ear: stark testimony to the brutal attack she barely survived three months ago. When the girl, Gul Meena, is with other people, even those whom she knows at the shelter where she now lives, she pulls a veil across the damaged side of her face, often touching it gingerly and sucking in her breath. Full news...
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January 30, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Deutsche Welle: Afghan widows are struggling for survival. After their husbands’ deaths, the women are faced with rape, poverty and social condemnation. One of them considers her life to have ended before it ever really began. Gulghotay’s world fell apart she when heard the news of her husband’s death. They had been married for only three months and now he was suddenly dead. Full news...
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January 29, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Al Jazeera: Anisa Azam is a small woman with extraordinary courage. Her lined face makes her look older than her 40-something years, and there is a permanent sadness about her. Last March her daughter Khatera was murdered. Azam tried to prevent it: A few weeks before the death, she and her daughter went to a Kabul police station to report a history of spousal abuse, and threats against her daughter. Full news...
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January 23, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: An investigation is underway into the death of a 27-old-year woman found Wednesday morning hanged in her home in northern Jawzjan province, local officials said. The hanging took place last night in the woman Rahila’s home in the Shirik village of Jawzjan’s Aqcha district, the spokesman of 303 Pamir Police Zone in north Afghanistan, Lal Mohammad Ahmadzai, said. Full news...
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January 17, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: Two girls are seeking justice for two separate rape cases in Afghanistan’s central and northern provinces, both accusing government personnel of raping them after they sought help from a previous rape. In northern Baghlan province’s Nahrin district, 13-year-old Zarbibi was allegedly raped by her cousin multiple times, and was subsequently raped by the police officer investigating her case. 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 13, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The crime branch chief for the Nahrin district of northern Baghlan province has been referred to the military prosecution office on the charge of sexually abusing a girl, an official said on Sunday. The girl was abducted from the Khanabad district of Kunduz to Baghlan province two months ago, the provincial police chief, Brig. Gen. Asadullah Sherzad, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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January 12, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A newly-wed woman was killed by her in-laws in the fourth police district of the capital of western Herat province, officials said on Saturday. Dunia, 22, was killed in Baraman area late on Friday, police spokesman, Noor Khan Nekzad, told Pajhwok Afghan News. With the motive behind her murder yet to be known, five suspects have been detained. Full news...
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January 5, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
WNN/RFE/RL: An Afghan prisoner serving 20 years for murdering his in-laws is now suspected of strangling his young bride during a conjugal visit. Din Mohammad, who is serving his sentence at a prison in the northern Samangan Province, is accused by police of killing his wife when she visited him on January 1. Mohammad was convicted in 2009 of killing his mother-in-law, brother-in-law, and sister-in-law during a bloody rampage. Full news...
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January 4, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaama Press: Afghan public health ministry officials announced at least one Afghan woman dies in every two hours across the country due maternal deaths. Suraya Dalil Afghan public health minister said majority of the mothers die during childbirth as a result of lack of proper healthcare. Full news...
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January 4, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaama Press: According to reports a young Afghan girl was gang raped by a group of men in Moqor district. A member of the provincial council Hamida Gulistani confirming the report said the incident took place in Lalam Qala around two days back. Gulistani said government officials in Moqor district tried to hide the incident however she was informed of the incident by security sources. 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 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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