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  • April 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Two women hung in Jowzjan province of Afghanistan
    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...

  • March 31, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Pregnant women stabbed to death in Parwan
    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...

  • March 30, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Self-immolations increase in Herat
    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...

  • March 29, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghan women suffering from domestic violence: official
    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...

  • March 27, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Malalai Joya, Noam Chomsky Denounce US Occupation of Afghanistan
    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...

  • March 23, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Women suffer with no female doctors in Daikundi
    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...

  • March 23, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Their empty talk of liberating Afghan women
    SocialistWorker.org: IT SEEMS like a ludicrous claim now, but when the U.S. invaded Afghanistan nearly 10 years ago in the “war on terror,” one of the most potent justifications was to liberate Afghan women. George W. Bush lined up a group of influential women, including his wife Laura and liberal feminist organizations like the Feminist Majority Foundation, to press the case...      Full news...

  • March 14, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Cry against gender violence in Afghanistan
    The Japan Times: Self-immolation committed by a large number of Afghan women is one of the most tragic responses to gender violence in that country. Aside from the horror of dying, surviving this act makes victims unfit for a normal life. They are often permanently maimed, disfigured and shunned by their communities.      Full news...

  • March 10, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Police chief says ISAF killed woman in Kunduz
    PAN: One woman died and another was injured when soldiers from the NATO-led coalition opened fire in the northern province of Kunduz, officials said. The International Security Assistance Force said it was investigating the incident, but that a preliminary report showed the two women were over a kilometer away from where the firing took place.      Full news...


  • March 8, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Taliban claims attack on female police officer
    PAN: Taliban fighters on Tuesday claimed responsibility for an attack on a female police official in the western province of Herat. Gunmen on motorcycles shot and wounded 2nd Lt. Maryam, head of a police recruitment centre, after she left her home in Paen Aab and went out of the city.      Full news...

  • March 7, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghan Women’s Desperate Cry for Help
    TheWip: The great number of Afghan women who commit self-immolation (burning oneself to death) is one of the most tragic responses to gender violence in that country. Aside from the horror of dying, surviving this act makes its victims unfit for a normal life. They are often permanently maimed, disfigured, and shunned by their communities.      Full news...


  • February 21, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    NATO killed Afghan army soldier along with his wife and four children
    PAN: An airstrike by NATO-led forces killed an Afghan army soldier along with five family members in the Khogyani district of eastern Nangarhar province, officials and relatives said on Monday. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has acknowledged the strike killed and wounded civilians and said it would look into the incident.      Full news...

  • February 20, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghan Officials: 64 Innocent Afghans Killed in US Military Operation
    The Washington Post: Afghan government officials alleged that a U.S. military operation in the remote mountains of northeastern Afghanistan killed 64 innocent people, including 22 women and more than 30 children, the most serious civilian casualty allegation in months. "According to locals in the area, American helicopters have been constantly bombing the village and have caused tremendous civilian casualties," The governor of Kunar province, Fazlullah Wahidi, said in an interview.      Full news...

  • February 16, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    A young girl killed by powerful locals in north Afghanistan
    TOLOnews.com (Translated by RAWA): President Hamid Karzai has strongly condemned the killing of a young girl in Takhar province in a newspaper. The office of the president told a newspaper that the president has ordered the National Security Council, ministries of internal affairs, administration of National Security and local officials in Takhar, to arrest the people involved hand them over to the law.      Full news...

  • February 5, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Stoning victim was bought bride
    The Scotsman: A YOUNG woman stoned to death in Afghanistan’s north had run away from home because her father had sold her into marriage with a wealthy relative, The Scotsman can reveal. Sediqa, thought to be in her early twenties, fled her village with another man, when she realised the “fiancé” who bought her was old and already married.      Full news...

  • February 3, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Violence against Afghan women hit record
    The Nation: More than 4,000 incidents of violence against women have happened in nine months last year in Afghanistan, a senior official in Ministry of Women’s Affairs said. Officials in ministry of women’s affairs strongly condemned stoning of a newly-wed couple in northern Kunduz province and rape incidents in western Herat province.      Full news...

  • February 2, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Young Girl Raped in Western Afghanistan by Provincial Security Forces
    TOLOnews.com: A young Afghan girl was abducted from her family and then raped by provincial security forces in western Herat province. Father of the raped girl told TOLOnews that around 20 days ago bodyguards of Chesht District Chief in Herat rushed into their home at night and kidnapped his daughter. Fauzia, the victim in her twenties, said she was raped by five individuals. Members of the family warned to commit suicide if the government ignored to bring those responsible to justice.      Full news...

  • January 27, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Woman stoned to death in north Afghanistan
    BBC News: The man and woman were accused of adultery in the district of Dashte Archi in Kunduz province last August. Hundreds of people attended the stoning but no-one was charged. The area is still under Taliban control. After viewing the footage, regional police chief Gen Daoud Daoud said those responsible could be recognised.      Full news...

  • January 27, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Abuse stifles the potential of Afghan women
    MediaGlobal: Although a number of laws have been put in place to improve the lives of Afghan women, there are still significant obstacles to overcome; the road to independence appears to be a long and challenging one. Many women are turning to suicide in order to escape the violence they face. Afghanistan is the only country in the world where suicide rates of women outnumber those of men.      Full news...

  • January 19, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghan Women Bemoan Rights Pledges
    IWPR: They sit patiently in the lobby of the directorate of women’s rights at the women’s ministry, their sad, bruised faces testimony to the years of ill-treatment and beatings they have been forced to endure. One of the women, Marina, 20, told this IWPR reporter that her family married her off when she was 14 to a drug-addict twice her age.      Full news...

  • January 17, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Fake feminism NATO-style
    New Euorope: Back in 2002, the Indian writer Arundhati Roy brilliantly satirised the official excuses for the invasion of Afghanistan . “It’s being made out that the whole point of the war was to topple the Taliban regime and liberate Afghan women from their burqas,” she said. “We are being asked to believe that the US marines are actually on a feminist mission.”      Full news...

  • January 3, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Fleeing Violent Husbands Puts Afghan Women in Jail
    Time: Gul Bibi pulls back her light blue scarf to reveal faded tribal tattoos and sad, almond eyes. She has not seen any of her three children, or any other family members, in the five months she has languished in prison. Her “crime”: running away from a husband who viciously beat her throughout their nine-year marriage, which was arranged by her parents when she was 16 to end a land dispute.      Full news...

  • December 22, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Simple Solutions Save Women’s Lives in Afghanistan
    The Huffington Post: You would think there would be more of an uproar in a country with the highest maternal death rates. No other country in the world loses more women in childbirth than Afghanistan. None. Rarely has being first at something meant so much loss. It's not just the women either, lest you callously chalk it up to the inevitable argument over women's oppression in a country like Afghanistan...      Full news...

  • December 16, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    AFGHANISTAN: Risky road to hospital
    IRIN: At 4am, Abdul Malek and his pregnant wife were in a rented car heading to Boost Hospital in Lashkargah, capital of southern Helmand Province. The couple decided to leave their home in the Sangeen District as early as possible to avoid roadblocks by pro-government forces or being seen by anti-government forces.      Full news...

  • December 13, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghan women face abuse for fleeing forced marriages
    IWPR: While the world may have been shocked by the image of a 20-year-old woman simply known as Aisha who had her nose and ears cut off by her father-in-law after fleeing her violent Taliban husband, Zaiba understood the risk she faced when she ran away from home to escape an arranged marriage in order to wed the man she loved.      Full news...

  • December 12, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Mothers – the hidden addicts of Afghanistan
    The Independent: Mariana lies on her bed in the Sanga Amaj clinic in Kabul. She shares a small ward with 12 women enrolled in the clinic's 45-day residential drug rehabilitation programme. At 22, she is five months pregnant with her fourth child. Her one-year-old son lies in a separate room of the clinic. He is also addicted to opium.      Full news...

  • December 10, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Hundreds demand justice in war-blighted Afghanistan
    The Associated Press: Several hundred demonstrators, some holding photographs of victims of three decades of war, shouted for justice and peace .... In recognition of International Human Rights Day, about 300 people participated in a demonstration in the capital, Kabul, organized by the Social Association of Afghan Justice Seekers.      Full news...

  • December 9, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Child marriage, honour killings rampant in Afghanistan: UN
    PAN: Afghan women and girls continue to have their rights trampled due to harmful traditional practices in all communities throughout the country, the United Nations said on Thursday. Releasing a 56-page report, the UNAMA human rights director told a news conference in Kabul that child and forced marriage, giving away girls to settle disputes, exchange marriages and honour killings were occurring in different parts of the country.      Full news...



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