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September 17, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Bloody Crossroads: In her book, A Woman among Warlords, Malalai Joya speaks out on the real purpose of the United States’ occupation, and the war’s disastrous consequences. The Afghanistan war is not the good war we should have fought instead of Iraq. It is not about making us safer from terrorism. It is not about suffocating the rising tide of Islamic extremism. It is not about spreading women’s rights. Full news...
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August 20, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CNN: Under the cover of darkness, a 9-year-old girl and her mother ran from their stone and mud home on the outskirts of Kabul. They feared the wrath of her stepfather. “My father was beating me and my mother,” said the girl, who to protect her identity will be referred to as simply Zarina. “He would insult my mother and sometimes wouldn't bring us food.” Full news...
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August 18, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: At least 22 people have been killed and many wounded when a roadside bomb hit a crowded minibus in the Afghan province of Herat, officials say. Officials said the bus was full and women and children were among the casualties. It was travelling from Obe district to the provincial capital, which recently passed to the control of Afghan forces. Full news...
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August 11, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A 27-year-old woman reportedly committed self-immolation due to a family dispute in northwestern Jawzjan province, an official said on Thursday. The incident took place late on Wednesday night, said Col. Mohammad Jan Abed, the deputy police chief. He linked the suicide attempt to domestic violence. A sister-in-law and mother-in-law of Fazala, the victim, have been arrested for investigation, he said. Full news...
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July 29, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Ali Ahmad, 19, and Samira, 18, were walking down a street in Herat in western Afghanistan when a police car suddenly drew up in front of them and officers got out to question them about the nature of their relationship. The young couple explained that they were engaged and due to marry soon, and had come out together – with the permission of both their families – to discuss their future together. Full news...
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July 27, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
ABC News: A chronic shortage of midwives and basic health services makes having a baby one of the most dangerous things an Afghan woman can do. A woman dies during childbirth every 29 minutes in Afghanistan, which is wracked by poverty, insecurity and deeply ingrained discrimination against women. Full news...
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July 23, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: NATO-led troops killed a lady doctor along with two family members in the Syedabad district of central Wardak province, the Ghazni Civil Hospital director alleged on Saturday. Dr. Ismayeel Ibrahimzai told Pajhwok Afghan News that Dr. Aqila Hekmat, in charge of the maternity ward, her 18-year-old son and nephew were killed late on Friday, when ISAF soldiers fired at their vehicle. Full news...
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July 12, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: Authorities are striving to improve health conditions for women in Afghanistan, where maternal mortality and female life expectancy indicators are the worst in the world, says a new report. According to the State of the World’s Mothers 2011 report, published on 24 June by NGO Save the Children, about 50 women die in childbirth each day in Afghanistan. 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 15, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Sydney Morning Herald: Targeted violence against female public officials, dismal healthcare and desperate poverty make Afghanistan the world’s most dangerous country in which to be born a woman, a new global survey shows. The Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan, India and Somalia feature in descending order after Afghanistan in the list of the five worst countries, the poll among gender experts shows. Full news...
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June 7, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Police arrested three people accused of raping a teenage girl in the northern province of Takhar, officials said on Tuesday. The 15-year-old was gang-raped by five men in the Tash Tamshoq village of Kalifgan district on Monday night after they forced their way into her house. The alleged rapists tied up her mother and raped the girl... Full news...
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June 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Two young girls were killed while a third survived strangulation in eastern and southeastern Afghanistan, officials said Monday. The body of one girl was found in the Mohammad Khel area outside the capital of Khost province, the Quick Reaction Force commander said. Full news...
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May 29, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A teenager girl alleged on Sunday she was raped by her neighbour in the northern province of Sar-i-Pul. She was sexually assaulted two days ago in the Qazi Kinti village on the outskirts of Sar-i-Pul, Shakiba told Pajhwok Afghan News. “My mother took my sister to Kabul for treatment and my father also went to work. My other sister went to school. My neighbour Mirwais entered my house,” she said. Full news...
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May 19, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Telegraph: The execution of Bibi Sanubar prompted revulsion inside Afghanistan and abroad after she was imprisoned, given 200 lashes before a crowd and then shot three times in the head. Her death in an insurgent-controlled district of the north-west fed fears of a possible return to Taliban-era capital punishment if concessions were made in any peace settlement with the militants. Full news...
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May 13, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
San Diego Union Tribune: What do human rights, women’s rights, civil rights, justice, freedom of religion and freedom of speech have in common? They are all nonexistent in Afghanistan. In my six months here, I’ve witnessed the aftermath of the Taliban rule, which forced Islam on people, murdered women for going to school or not wearing a burqa, and stoned people for speaking their mind. Full news...
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May 5, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Xinhua: “Nearly 70 percent of women dying from pregnancy related problems in my province due to the limited access to health centers and professional midwives,” a young Afghan midwife Fatima Hamdard from the country’s central Wardak province told Xinhua recently as the International Day of Midwife falls on Thursday. Full news...
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May 3, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: The best place in the world to be a mom is Norway, where maternal and child mortality rates are low, women’s life expectancy and years in school are high, and the average maternity leave is about one year, a new study measuring the well-being of mothers and babies shows. Australia and Iceland join Norway at the top of Save the Children’s 12th annual Mothers Index, released Tuesday. Full news...
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May 1, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The dead body of a 40-year-old pregnant woman was found in northern Samangan province on Sunday morning, a police official said. The corpse was recovered in the Shahid Andkhoi Aibak neighbourhood, the acting crime branch, Capt. Asadullah, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Asadullah said the woman’s body had been transferred to the Aibak Civil Hospital. Her address is yet to be ascertained. Full news...
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April 26, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: The penalties that Afghan women suffer whenever allegations of pre-marital sex and loss of virginity emerge, including death, are extreme, discriminatory and not in the penal code, activists said. “I saw a woman who was publically humiliated and tortured because she had allegedly lost her virginity before her wedding night,” said Suraya Subhrang, a women’s rights commissioner at the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC). Full news...
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April 21, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: TWO Afghan women were killed in an operation in eastern Afghanistan that also left 17 insurgents dead, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said today. Local officials had previously said that two women and a child died in the fighting late Tuesday in the Dangam district of Kunar province. “The security forces returned fire, killing the insurgent and what turned out to be two women he was hiding behind,” an ISAF statement said. Full news...
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April 17, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: With violence against them increasing, 75 women committed self-immolation last year, Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) said on Sunday. A total of 2,765 cases of violence against women and girls were reported to the rights watchdog from different parts of the country, AIHRC official Latifa Sultani told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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April 11, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Guardian News & Media: When plans to regulate Afghanistan’s booming wedding industry were announced earlier in the year, the government said it merely wanted to curb the country’s mania for lavish weddings that drag people into debt. But according to drafts of the law it is also aiming to introduce various public morality provisions in yet another sign of the casual erosion of the small freedoms women have won since 2001. And in an echo of the Taliban regime, which used to police weddings ... Full news...
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April 10, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Harvard International Review: It is an open secret today that the US is the god-father of Islamic fundamentalism in the region. All terrorist fundamentalist groups from Al-Qaeda to the Taliban and our warlords of the Northern Alliance were created, funded, and nourished by the CIA during the cold war. The green belt of extremism and Jihad concept, which was funded and implemented by the CIA through ISI of Pakistan, has caused all of the current problems, and the US still needs these groups to advance its long-term war agenda in the region. Full news...
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April 7, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The number of women toiling away alongside their husbands in the fields, construction and other hard labour is increasing in central Bamyan province, with many having to give up school to contribute to the family’s finances. Zahra, 36, lives in Surkh, and says she has worked as a farmhand for the past eight years. Full news...
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April 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Afghanistan Today (Translated by RAWA): General Abdul Aziz Ghairat, the police chief of Jowzjan, gave news suicide committed by two women, saying, “The first woman named Gul Bibi, wife of Abdul Ghafar of the Qorm Qila village of Mardian district, hung herself with a rope at seven in the morning at her home.” The second incident, he said, took place in the city of Jowzjan in the Chetgiri area... Full news...
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March 31, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A husband fatally stabbed his pregnant wife on Thursday due to a family dispute in the central province of Parwan, an official said. Hamidullah, 34, killed his 22-year-old pregnant wife on Thursday morning in Deh Maskin area of Bagram district, deputy police chief, Col. Abdul Razaq Quraishi, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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March 30, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Self-immolations have increased over the past year in western Afghanistan, but fewer people have died from their injuries, doctors say. The main causes of self-immolation are violence in families, poverty, drug addiction and forced and early marriages. A number of women who attempted to kill themselves say they did so because they were unhappy with their lives and families. Full news...
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March 29, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Xinhua: Ignoring women rights and violence against women in Afghanistan’s western Herat and neighboring provinces has prompted 88 women and girls to commit self-immolation in an attempt to get rid of domestic violence over the past one year. In the war-torn Afghanistan where people, mostly in rural areas practice upon tradition the women and girls are facing a variety of violence... Full news...
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March 27, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
War Is A Crime.org: In two jam-packed appearances this weekend, Afghan feminist leader Malalai Joya reached at least 1500 people with her denunciations of the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan. She spoke with Professor Noam Chomsky to 1200 people at Harvard’s Memorial Church Friday night and to 300 in Jamaica Plain this afternoon. Full news...
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March 23, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Many women in central Daikundi province are dying unnecessarily because there are no female doctors in any of the districts. The provincial council has accused the nongovernmental organisation contracted for the last four years to provide health services in Daikundi of not doing its job. Full news...
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