Afghan Women under the tyranny of the misogynist fundamentalists


Medieval restrictions imposed by Taliban on Afghan women since Aug.2021

An overview on the situation of Afghan Women
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Some of the restrictions imposed by Taliban on women (1996-2001)
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Afghan women in chains of the brutal fundamentalists
  • March 15, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghan Activists Want US Out, No Deal with Taliban
    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...


  • March 11, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    US soldier kills Afghan civilians in Kandahar
    BBC News: A US soldier in Afghanistan has killed 10 civilians and wounded five in Kandahar province after suffering a breakdown, officials say. He left his military base in the early hours of the morning and opened fire after entering local homes, the BBC’s Quentin Sommerville reports from Kabul.      Full news...


  • March 8, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    For Afghan Policewomen, Sex Abuse Is A Job Hazard
    NPR: The image of Afghan women wearing police and army uniforms is meant to inspire pride and hope for a future where the rights of women will be protected in Afghanistan. So why would female police officers in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif be ashamed to admit they wear the badge? “Except my very close family members, no one really knows that I am a police officer,” said one woman at a NATO training session.      Full news...

  • March 7, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghanistan’s teen brides who set themselves alight
    AFP: Flayed by a fire she began herself, Aatifa’s childlike frame is painstakingly wrapped in thick bandages -- her shrieks of “Allah” echoing around the hospital ward where surgeons prepare to graft skin back on to her skeletal torso. Her wide blue eyes alternating between flashes of anger and wells of tears, the 16-year-old Afghan girl struggles to explain what led her to douse her own body in petrol, step outside and light a match.      Full news...

  • March 6, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Hamid Karzai backs restrictive code for women
    The Associated Press: Afghanistan’s president endorsed a “code of conduct” issued by an influential council of clerics which activists say represents a giant step backward for women’s rights in the country. President Hamid Karzai’s remarks backing the Ulema Council’s document, which allows husbands to beat wives under certain circumstances and encourages segregation of the sexes, is seen as reaching out to insurgents like the Taliban.      Full news...

  • March 5, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghan clerics’ guidelines “a green light for Talibanisation”
    The Guardian: Women are subordinate to men, should not mix in work or education and must always have a male guardian when they travel, according to new guidelines from Afghanistan's top clerics which critics say are dangerously reminiscent of the Taliban era. The edicts appeared in a statement that also encouraged insurgents to join peace talks...      Full news...

  • March 1, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    12 years old rape victim seeks release from jail
    PAN: A 12-year-old girl on Thursday complained she had been sent to jail after being raped by her neighbour in the Shahr-i-Safa district of southern Zabul province. But prosecutors said that the girl and her two brothers were taken into custody after the alleged rapist, 21 years old, was publicly sodomised.      Full news...

  • February 29, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Brutal honor-killing of an innocent girl by strongmen
    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...

  • February 28, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghanistan’s Secret Prostitutes
    Channel 4 News: You never have to wander far from your front door in Kabul to be confronted by the dire poverty in a city where billions have been spent in foreign aid over the past decade of occupation by the west. Where an entire sub-economy has grown up around the semi-permanent presence of foreign NGOs.      Full news...

  • February 27, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Violence against Nangarhar women on the rise
    PAN: Cases of violence against women have increased by 10 percent during the current solar year in eastern Nangarhar province, officials said on Monday. Director of Women’s Affairs Anisa Imrani told Pajhwok Afghan News after a meeting in Jalalabad: “Eighty cases of violence against women were registered with her department last year, compared to 90 over the past 11 months.”      Full news...

  • February 17, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghan bride burns herself in protest of domestic violence
    Xinhua: “I have knocked any door to get rid of violence but all of my complaints have fallen to deaf ears. Instead, the prosecutor accused me of lying and warned me of dire consequence,” a woman named Sadat revealed her ordeal in a weak voice while receiving treatment in Herat hospital. The bandaged wrapped image of the young woman showed by the private Tolo television...      Full news...

  • February 17, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Unreported Suicides in Central Afghan Province
    IWPR: Ghulam Rasul, 71, a short man with stooped shoulders had come to the marketplace in Nili, the main town of Daikundi province in central Afghanistan, to buy sugar, matches and candy. As he sat against the mud wall of a grocery shop under the hot sun, he told an IWPR reporter about three women in his village who had consumed rat poison in the past year. Two survived, and one died.      Full news...


  • February 15, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    IDPs in Kabul fearful they won’t survive brutal winter (Photos)
    RAWA News: During the cruel cold of Kabul, more than 20 children have died in an IDP camp in the outskirts of Kabul. More will surely die, the inhabitants fear. Half-naked children are seen everywhere in the blistering cold. Hundreds live in terrible conditions which constantly threat their life, especially in winters.      Full news...

  • February 14, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghan government asks for headscarves, less make-up on TV
    Reuters: An Afghan government request that female television presenters don headscarves and avoid heavy make-up angered journalists on Tuesday, who said the move was proof authorities expected the Taliban to regain a share of power. Afghan and U.S. officials have been seeking peace negotiations with the Islamist group ousted over a decade ago...      Full news...

  • February 13, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghan woman burnt to death in Iran
    PAN: The charred body of an Afghan refugee, allegedly killed by her in-laws in neighbouring Iran, was brought to southwestern Nimroz province, the victim’s father said on Monday. Abdul Basir told Pajhwok Afghan News his daughter was burnt by her mother-in-law and husband in Iran’s Sistan Baluchistan province five days ago. She had been sprinkled with gasoline before being set on fire, the father alleged.      Full news...

  • February 8, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    The Grit: Afghanistan’s Living Hell for Women
    The Grit: Sahar Gul was just 14 years old when she was married off to a man more than twice her age in the Bhaglan province of northern Afghanistan. Upset by her refusal to become a prostitute, Sahar’s new family kept her in a windowless basement for months, torturing her by pulling out her nails and removing chunks of her flesh with pliers.      Full news...

  • January 30, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghan Kin Are Accused of Killing Woman for Not Bearing a Son
    The New York Times: The young Afghan woman gave birth to a third girl three months ago — to a husband, the authorities say, who had been demanding a boy. Last week, the man and his mother, in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz, put a rope around the woman’s neck and strangled her, the police said.      Full news...

  • January 22, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghan child bride traded to pay opium debt
    Womensenews: In the summer of 2003, I met a girl in an Afghan town straddling the desert who would become an obsession for me. I knew her for only a few weeks, but those few weeks shaped the next four years of my life in Afghanistan. What I remember most about her is her scared look, a gaze that deepened her otherwise blank green eyes.      Full news...

  • January 15, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Violence against women on the rise in Uruzgan
    PAN: Incidents of violence against women increased in central Uruzgan province this year, when 60 cases were registered in the provincial capital alone, the Department of Women’s Affairs said on Sunday. Most of the incidents took place in far-flung areas, where some cases went unreported due to insecurity and other problems, Women’s Affairs Director Rana Sami Wafa told Pajhwok Afghan News.      Full news...

  • January 4, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Abuse in Afghanistan
    The Ottawa Citizen: The shocking story of a 15-year-old Afghan child-bride tortured nearly to death after being sent back to her abusive husband and his family illustrates the sad truth that Afghanistan remains one of the worst countries in the world to be a woman, despite the stated intentions of countries like Canada to change things.      Full news...

  • January 3, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Violence on women increasing in east: official
    PAN: The Independent Human Rights Commission (IHRC) on Tuesday said violence against women has been on the increase in eastern provinces, where 49 cases of violence were registered in last three months. “Main reasons behind the increasing violence against women are non-prosecution of culprits and abject poverty,” IHRC director for eastern provinces, Dr. Rafiullah Bidar, told a news conference.      Full news...

  • December 29, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Horrific abuse of girls and women acceptable in Afghanistan
    Digital Journal: Afghan girls, forced to marry when they are children or teenagers, are being tortured not only by their older husbands, but often by their family or in-laws. Usually it’s for no reason at all except that they are female. Women throughout Afghanistan are suffering domestic abuse, very often at the hands of their own family or in-laws.      Full news...

  • December 27, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghan teenage girl locked up for months in toilet
    PAN: Police rescued a teenage married girl who was kept locked-up in a toilet for six months by her in-laws in northern Baghlan province, officials said. The 15-year-old was found locked up-in the toilet after her parents informed police, the second police district chief, Col. Fazal Rahman, told Pajhwok Afghan News.      Full news...

  • December 20, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Pregnant Children in Afghanistan Face Death During Labor
    Babble: My biggest fear when I go into labor is whether or not I will make it to the hospital in time to receive my epidural. I have absolutely no tolerance for pain and am scared to death of having a natural birth. For many women giving birth in the United States, our fears about giving birth may seem rather minimal to a woman giving birth in a developing country.      Full news...

  • December 13, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Little Recourse for Afghan Domestic Abuse Victims
    IWPR: Zahra struggled for four years to conceal the violent truth about her daughter’s marriage. Twenty-year-old Nafisa’s husband would beat her repeatedly and throw her out of the house, while her mother Zahra did everything she could to keep the batterings a secret. It was only when Nafisa arrived at her parents’ home with a large black eye...      Full news...

  • December 12, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Giving birth is a battle for survival in Afghanistan
    Reuters: She was 15 years old, heavily pregnant and had travelled eight days on the back of a donkey to reach hospital. Suffering from seizures and high blood pressure, she died soon after at the Herat Maternity Hospital in western Afghanistan, one of the thousands of women who die in the country each year from causes linked to pregnancy and birth.      Full news...

  • December 10, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    In Kabul, hundreds rally for trial of war criminals
    PAN: Hundreds of people rallied in Kabul on Saturday, International Human Rights Day, calling for trying war criminals. A large number of women took part in the rally organised by the Social Association of Afghan Justice Seekers (SAAJS). Carrying photos of war victims, the demonstrators asked the government to bring to justice people involved in mass murder over the past three decades.      Full news...


  • November 30, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Acid sprayed over Afghan family in marriage row
    BBC News: A gang in north Afghanistan reportedly indignant at a father’s refusal to give his daughter up for marriage have sprayed the family of five with acid. Allegedly led by the suitor, they broke into the house in Kunduz, beat the father up, then sprayed him, his wife and three daughters in the face. The father and eldest daughter are in critical condition, doctors say.      Full news...

  • November 26, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Teacher gang-raped in Baghlan
    PAN: Unidentified gunmen gang-raped a kidnapped schoolteacher in Pul-i-Khumri, the capital of northern Baghlan province, officials said on Saturday. The woman teacher was abducted by armed men from the eighth road of Baghlan-i-Markazi district late on Thursday, Col. Mohammad Kamin, the district police chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News.      Full news...

  • November 24, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghan woman being forced to marry her rapist
    CNN: Afghan prosecutors announced Wednesday that a young rape victim, jailed for adultery after reporting the crime and pushed into marrying her attacker, would have her sentence reduced from twelve to three years. The prosecutor said she would, for now, remain in jail -- with her child -- for not reporting her attack fast enough. 21-year-old Gulnaz was attacked by a relative two years ago, but sentenced to 12 years in jail for adultery.      Full news...

  • November 21, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Concerns over increasing violence on women in Afghanistan
    Khaama Press: Officials in the Human Rights Commission of Afghanistan on Sunday expressed concerns regarding increasing violence agains the women during the past six months. According to an official in the Human Right Commission of Afghanistan, Suraya Sobhrang, around 2433 violence against the women cases have been registered across the country during the past six months which shows an increase as compared to the previous year.      Full news...

  • November 12, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    “Out-of-touch” EU damned by words of praise from Kabul rapist
    The Times: Assadullah Sher Mohammad, who is serving 12 years in Kabul’s notorious Pul-e Charkhi jail for raping and making pregnant a 19-year-old relative, said the EU “had done a good thing”. Yet his endorsement, first delivered when The Times visited him in jail two months ago and reiterated by his brother yesterday, has highlighted the EU’s growing isolation.      Full news...

  • November 11, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Mother, daughter shot dead in Afghanistan
    AFP: A mother and daughter were killed in their home in eastern Afghanistan Friday by armed men who apparently accused them of “immoral activities,” officials and neighbours said. The two attackers burst into the home of the widow and her daughter in Ghazni city at around 4:00 am and shot them dead, said Ghazni provincial police chief Zilawar Zahid.      Full news...

  • November 9, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Runaway child bride: ‘They will give me a terrible death’
    The Times: Sonia stole some money from her mother’s dresser and fled the house in such a panic that it was only in the road outside that she realised her shoes were different colours. But by then it was too dangerous to turn back. Shrouded in a burka and with tears streaming down her face, the 14-year-old was fleeing an arranged marriage to a Taleban insurgent.      Full news...

  • November 9, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    War-shattered Afghan women live on alms
    Xinhua: In many countries, including Afghanistan, begging has been regarded as a taboo, but in this war- ravaged and poverty-stricken country, many people including women has adopted begging as a profession to support their families. “Continued conflicts have destroyed my life, claimed the life of my husband and forcing me to beg for alms in order to survive,”...      Full news...

  • October 23, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Married girl hanged to death in Ghor
    PAN: A young woman was allegedly hanged to death by her father-in-law in western Ghor province, officials said on Sunday. The 22-year-old was found dead on the outskirts of Chaghcharan late on Saturday, deputy police chief, Col. Abdul Rashid Bashir, told Pajhwok Afghan News.      Full news...



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Gulbar in a local hospital in Badghis province
Gulbar, an Afghan woman who was burnt by her husband in Nov.2005 (details...)

Muska a victim in so-called liberated Afghanistan
Muska, a female election worker who committed suicide after rape attempt on her in Jalalabad on Oct.9, 2004 (details...)
A woman victim of family violence
A true face of Afghan women today.
"There is a huge gap between the reality on the ground and the 'remarkable progress' claimed by western diplomats who sit in fortified compounds behind guards..." (Christina Lamb, The Sunday Times, November 5, 2006)

Women crying
Women wailing with grief as they are turned away from a funeral in Kabul in late 1994. AI
Those responsible for these killings are now in possession of power in Afghanistan and strongly supported by the US government.

An Afghan women
A woman with her child recounts how her husband was killed in Afshar, west of Kabul. Hundreds of innocent people from Hazara minority were massacred by forces of Sayyaf and Ahmad Shah Massoud in this area in 1993
Zarmeena is being excuted by Taliban
Public execution of an Afghan woman by Taliban in Kabul
Photos from a video film by RAWA (click here to view more photos and movie clips)

a victim
A victim of the fundamentalists brutalities against women
More photos


A woman who was gang-raped and then killed The Jehadi fundamentalists after gang-raping Shukria, killed her in cold-blood

Shukria d/o Ali Mardan was the mother of four children and lived in Kabul. She had a tailoring-shop. On May 22, 1993 she was on her way to Shahrara when suddenly a car braked to a halt and a group of armed-jehadi jumped out and dragged her to their car and in a minute disappeared. Her ill-fated family searched every where but in vain.... Till, after fifty-five days her blood-soaked semi-naked body was found in Khairkhana, Kabul.

Today again the Northern Alliance, the rapists and murderers of thousands of Shukrias have key positions in the new Afghan government.


Nahid killed on Feb.9, 1993 Naheed another victims of the Jehadi Fundamentalists

Thirteen-year-old Nahida Hassan became a symbol for Afghan women and girls who were raped during the two decades of war. [On Feb.9, 1993] when a commander and twenty of his troops broke into her Kabul apartment, killing her 12-year-old brother and gunning down her other male relatives, Nahida understood she was the target. To avoid being sexually savaged, she leapt from the sixth-floor window to her death. Today, there is a shrine on the spot where she fell. "Everyone knew who the commander was. But no one dared touch him," said the girl's 64-year-old grandfather, Mohammed Hassan. The commander enjoyed the protection of his party, whose fundamentalist cleric leader, Burhanuddin Rabbani, headed the government at the time and, more recently, the Northern Alliance, which holds key positions in the new interim administration.

Jan Goodwin, The Nation, April 29, 2002


WOMEN IN AFGHANISTAN: A human rights catastrophe
(Amnesty International document, March 1995)


Self-immolation among Afghan Women (horrible photos)


Afghan woman, victim of terrible family violence     Victim of crime by husband     Domestic Violence against children    Self-immolations among Afghan women    Gang-rape of 12-y-old girl





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