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IRIN News: Ten-year-old Sweeta still remembers the most painful moments of her life when a bulky 35-year-old man raped her in his office in the town of Sheberghan, Jowzjan Province, in northern Afghanistan. At around 10am on 31 January 2008 a vehicle with the markings and number plate of the Afghan National Army (ANA) stopped near a water-point where Sweeta was filling her buckets, according to AHRO. Full news...
The Associated Press: The girl was 11 when she was molested by a man with no legs. The man paid her $5. And that was how she started selling sex. Afghanistan is one of the world's most conservative countries, yet its sex trade appears to be thriving. Sex is sold most obviously at brothels full of women from China who serve both Afghans and foreigners. Far more controversial are Afghan prostitutes, who stay underground in a society that pretends they don't exist. Full news...
Sun News: Paradise is a brothel in an unmarked residential compound in an upscale Kabul neighbourhood where prostitutes from China cater to Western men. Since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001, thousands of Westerners working for security firms, companies and aid groups have poured into Afghanistan. Not long after came Chinese prostitutes, in some cases trafficked into the country. Full news...
The Globe and Mail: Since the repressive Taliban regime was toppled in late 2001, Afghanistan, which has one of the highest infant and maternal mortality rates in the world, has vastly improved health-care services for mothers and their babies. However, in restive regions in southern Afghanistan, such as rural areas in Kandahar and Helmand provinces, many women say the situation has worsened. Full news...
Hundreds of families of the war victims in a show off protest in front of the UN office called upon president Hamid Karzai and the UN to bring to justice those responsible for three decades long war in the country killing millions of innocent people. Referring to the Paris conference they said hundreds of millions of aid is poured into Afghanistan, but no considerable progress can be seen in the reconstruction of the country. Full news...
The Australian: A CRIMINAL group that abducted and raped schoolchildren then recorded the abuse to make pornographic videos has been busted in the Afghan capital Kabul. Full news...
HRW: The Afghan government and international donors should place human rights issues including freedom of expression in the war-ravaged country at the centre of discussions at the donors' conference in Paris tomorrow, Human Rights Watch said today. Full news...
PAN: Four girls' schools are about to close down their operations due to decrease in number of students and staffers following threatening pamphlets issued by Taliban in the southern Ghazni province. Full news...
On Line Opinion: The Afghan occupation is in its seventh year, and resistance to the occupation has not abated. According to the US National Intelligence director the US puppet regime of Hamid Karzai exerts control over no more than 30 per cent of the country. The situation for women has not improved since the US led invasion, in fact quite the contrary. Full news...
PAN: A husband in Baghlan province, who had been married only for three nights, slaughtered his wife. Officer Abdul Hameed, the commander of the Security Police of the First District of Pulkhumri said that last midnight, Khwaja Farooq had cut his wife’s throat with a pair of scissors and when the police had arrived few hours later and surrounded his home, he had escaped. Full news...
PAN: Not observing the pause between births, early marriages, not going to healthcare centers, being in contact with other diseases are the causes of increase in the number of women with tuberculosis in the country. According to the information of the Ministry of Public Health, last year about 40,000 women had this disease and about 8,500 of them died. 70% of the people with this disease were women. Full news...
PAN: 55-year old Gul Murad lived a life of poverty in the Zedori village with his wife Anar Gul and eight children. Gul Murad had not had food for four days and died. When the people were burying him his wife went unconscious. When she was being taken to the Mazar-e-Sharif Hospital for treatment, she died on the way. At first the people thought she had died of the sadness caused by her husband’s death but later found out that she too had not eaten anything for days and had died of hunger. Full news...
The New England Journal of Medicine: Self-immolation is the act of burning oneself as a means of suicide. Although reliable data on the scope of this practice are difficult to obtain in Afghanistan and elsewhere, there are indications that self-immolation is occurring at a notable and steady rate. In 2004, in response to an apparent increase in cases of self-immolation in the country, the Afghan government, AIHRC, and the UNAMA undertook separate reviews of identified cases to try to determine why the practice was occurring. Full news...
PAN: An influential international rights watchdog Wednesday renewed its call for Afghan parliament to reinstate its outspoken member Malalai Joya, suspended a year ago. Human Rights Watch (HRW), hailing the youngest member of the Wolesi Jirga as a bold human rights activist, said the 29-year-old had publicly criticised warlords and drug barons in her country. Full news...
Adnkronos International: Taliban fighters in Afghanistan claim to have killed a woman by slitting her throat after accusing her of spying for US forces in Afghanistan. Full news...
Reporters Without Borders: RWB calls on the authorities to do everything possible to protect women journalists, several of whom have been attacked or threatened since the start of the year. One, Niloufar Habibi, has continued to receive death threats since leaving hospital after being stabbed on 15 May in the northwestern city of Herat and has to change residence every day. Full news...
Reuters: When 19-year-old Fatima returned to her home in northern Afghanistan after years as a refugee in Iran, she struggled desperately to earn a living. She briefly found work with an NGO, before being let go, and then spent two months learning how to weave carpets, before the factory shut down and she was again out on the streets of Mazar-i-Sharif. Full news...
IRIN News: Sayed Ali (not his real name) said he sold his 11-year-old daughter, Rabia, for US$2,000 to a man in Sheberghan city, Jawzjan Province in northern Afghanistan to feed his wife and three younger children. With food prices in Afghanistan having soared over the past few months and the 40-year-old father unable to find work, he said he had no other choice but to sell his daughter to save his family from starvation. Full news...
AFP: A FEMALE Afghani journalist was stabbed and wounded today, authorities said, a day after unknown men threatened to kill her unless she quit her job at a local television station. "A woman came to my home and asked for a glass of water. As I was to bring her water she stabbed me in abdomen," Ms Habibi said. Full news...
Toronto Star: Six years after the fall of the Taliban, the cocooning burqa hangs on, even in a liberated capital rushing headlong into modernity, as if leaping millennia in one breathless hurdle. Tradition, family pressures, shyness and a sense of personal security without violation – all are given as reasons for clutching still to the metres of billowing fabric that cascade from scalp to ankle. Full news...
The Independent: The city is awash with widows who have come with the same idea. It is one of Kabul's many problems, this influx of desperate humanity that has flooded the city with double, treble the people it ever housed before the Russian invasion in 1979. Three-quarters of Afghans are almost completely illiterate. Among widows, the proportion is much higher. Kabul is awash with street children, hundreds of thousands of them, scavenging through rubbish, selling plastic bags, repairing bicycles, labouring for shoe-makers, or asking for alms in return for sending unwelcome wafts of aromatic smoke from the tin cans they wave at likely-looking passers-by. Full news...
ATN: An eight-year old girl was murdered in Takhar province by her rapists, after she was raped. Security officials of Takhar said that five people have been arrested for being involved in the murder and they have confessed their crime. Full news...
RFE/RL: Death during childbirth is a scourge in Afghanistan. On average, a woman dies there every 27 minutes from complications during pregnancy, according to the nongovernmental group Save The Children. It is a chilling statistic that contributes to making Afghanistan one of the most difficult places in the world to be a mother. Full news...
Reuters: About 1,600 Afghan women die in childbirth out of every 100,000 live births. In some of the most remote areas, the death rate is as high as 6,500. In comparison, the average rate in developing countries is 450 and in developed countries it is 9. Virtually everyone in Afghanistan can recount a story about a relative dying in childbirth, often from minor complications that can be easily treated with proper medical care. Full news...
The Associated Press: Khadija Ahadi, the 30-year-old director of Faryat radio station in the western city of Herat, was targeted on April 6 and again on Sunday, said Rahimullah Samandar, head of the Afghan Independent Journalists Association. Full news...
AFP: An Afghan legislative committee has drafted a bill seeking to introduce Taliban-style Islamic morality codes banning women from wearing make-up in public and forbidding young boys from wearing female fashions. It also aims to ban women dancers performing during concerts and other public events as well as on television. Full news...
BBC: In northern Afghanistan it appears some parents are being driven by poverty and hunger to marry off their daughters at an early age. Jenny Cuffe investigates for Radio 4's Seven Days. Full news...
The Age: A recent report by British-based women's rights group Womankind has concluded that Afghanistan remains one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a woman. Around 80% of women are affected by domestic violence; over 60% of marriages are forced, some of them between elderly men and girls as young as eight; half of Afghanistan's girls are married before the age of 16. Full news...
The Washington Post: More than six years after U.S.-led forces launched a military campaign here against the ruling Taliban movement, drug addiction is fast becoming a major concern for the government. With opium production reaching an all-time high of 6,000 tons last year, according to the United Nations, domestic addiction rates in this nation of nearly 32 million have also soared. A 2005 U.N. report estimated that Afghanistan was home to about 1 million drug abusers. Full news...
NDTV: Termed as "opium brides", the daughters of poor poppy farmers are often given to drug traffickers if their fathers are unable to pay the loan taken for growing the illicit crop because of the official action. Full news...
ATN: An 8-year old girl was raped in the Takhar province. General Ziauddin Mahmoodi, the commander of the police of Takhar said that the man involved has been arrested and is in the custody of the police now. Dr. Ashrafuddin Aini, head of the Civil Hospital of Takhar said that the 8-year old is admitted in this hospital and is under treatment. Full news...
AFP: Even Mother Nature was cruel on the day 15 years ago when rampaging thugs chopped off Marzia's fingers for a gold ring and shot dead her nine-year-old son when he cried out to object. It was a bone-chillingly cold morning, she recalls, when militia loyal to Pashtun warlord Abdul Rab-Rasoul Sayyaf -- now a parliamentarian -- captured her village, west of Kabul and dominated by ethnic Hazaras. Full news...
PAN: A 16-year old girl was kidnapped by unknown armed men in the Nahreen District of Baghlan province. The parents of 16-year old Guldana claimed that she had been kidnapped by a group of five unknown, armed men in the middle of the night in the New City area. Full news...
Belfast Telegraph: US soldiers have killed six Afghan civilians during a military raid in the east of the country this morning, according to a local official. A woman and two children are said to be among the dead following the operation in the village of Hom, close to the Pakistani border. Full news...
Internationalen Weekly: Undeterred by the “international community’s” political exigencies, the Afghan woman has not given up her struggle for peace, democracy, liberation as well as her right to education, health and work. Nowhere, perhaps nowhere in the world, one finds a woman as keen for education as an Afghan woman. And embodiment of this struggle is RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Woman of Afghanistan. Alerting the world since 1977 to the sufferings and struggle of Afghan woman, RAWA is the only woman, if not political, formation to have survived 30 years of Afghan war. An achievement in itself. ‘There is no organization on earth like it’, says John Pilger. Full news...< Previous 1 2 3 ... 23 24 25 26 27 Next >
(with photos and movie clip)Samia, victim of family violence in fundamentalists-dominated Afghanistan (with photos and movie clip)Afghan carpet weavers are unpaid slaves, rights activist says Being a writer -or woman- still dangerous in Afghanistan Female foe of warlords faces them in Afghan assembly Was Women's Vote a Roar, or a Whisper? The women of Afghanistan find a leader Afghan Woman Accused of Being U.S. Spy Is Killed Violence against women in Afghanistan remains dramatic – UN expert The Taleban may be gone, but the abuse of women goes on AI: Afghan Women Still Under Attack -- Systematic Failure to Protect Three Afghan women found dead with warning note A woman was stoned to death in Afghanistan Afghan women still in chains under Karzai Women Prisoners Complain of Bad Conditions and Sexual Abuse Access to Justice for Afghan Women 12-years old Rahima was gang-raped by warlords Afghan women offer to replace hostages Female election worker commits suicide after rape attempt on her (with photo) Afghan Women No Better Off; US accused of not fulfilling promises Painful story of the Herati shelter girls Afghan rights advocate expects death A populist hero emerges from under the rule of the gun Blast Kills 2 Afghan Women On Election Workers' Bus Afghan Schoolgirls Poisoned Afghan province bans women performers on TV, radio Self-Immolation Of Women On The Rise In Western Provinces Afghanistan's Supreme Court protests women singing on TV Afghanistan's Women after 'Liberation' Woman delegate almost expelled from Afghan assembly Thousands of married Afghan women were expelled from school Amnesty International: Constitution fails women Amnesty International: No justice and security for women Apathy of Afghan women after Taliban AFGHANISTAN: Report exposes continuing human rights abuses HRW Report Details Threats to Women's Rights, Freedom of Expression Afghan women: Fighting for the right to sing Eve Ensler: This is Most Fragile Time for Afghanistan "Climate of fear" rules Afghanistan, Girl's education at risk Afghanistan: the Taliban's smiling face Afghan poor sell daughters as brides Why burqas still stifle Afghan women Afghan warlords still enforcing Taliban oppression Post-Taliban Warlords Oppress Afghan Women Widespread abuse, restrictions on freedom continue Self-Immolations on Rise in Afghanistan Afghan Women Die Giving Birth at Staggering Rate Afghan Woman Fired for Meeting Bush Uncovered Afghan Girl Schools Struck by Attacks RAWA Literacy Program for Afghan Women (photos) Afghan Women Remain Victims of Hope Unfulfilled RAWA Interview with some prostitutes Women at risk in Afghanistan Afghan women still languish What the future holds for the women of Afghanistan? ZARMINA'S STORY "A female worker was gang raped in northern Afghanistan", UN HRW: Women Still Under Threat Afghan laws still repress women Afghan Woman Teacher Attacked with Acid Northern Alliance gunmen rape fourteen-year-old Fatima and her mother 3 Afghan women awaiting repatriation die Warlord's men commit rape in revenge against Taliban Pashtuns subjected to murder, sexual abuse in North of Afghanistan Annan: Afghan Women May Still Suffer Lifting The Veil On Taliban Sex Slavery Taliban Restrictions Drive Women To Suicide Reports of rape, looting by Afghan militiamen Afghan girls on sale for 100kg wheat "Give me security, then I will remove my burqa" Crimes of the "Northern Alliance" Seen Through the Eyes of a Grieving Mother The Heartbreaking Story of an Afghan Woman Taliban whipping a doctor and his female patients Inside Afghanistan: Behind the veil Misery brings down bride price in northern Afghanistan, UN Taliban orders women aid workers to stop driving Taliban stage lashing of unwed couple accused of having sex Taliban Hang Convicted Prostitutes Afghans trading young daughters to pay debts Story of a mother who never sees her only son Red Cross aids and interview with widows in Kabul Afghan women working in poppy fields prefer other jobs Samano, a poetess forced to turn to begging (photo) Taleban shuts 'widow's bakeries' Taliban arrest US aid worker, Ban women from working for NGOs Bakeries Sustain Afghan Widows Eager for Food-and Work Story of a Woman Victim of War
Salehah was burnt alive
Drug addiction among Afghan women on rise Sick women and the stick of Taliban Taliban Stone Woman for Adultery No female student in Afghan universities Taliban sack all female civil servants, teachers UN report flays Taliban rights violations against women Eyewitness report of a RAWA activist from Kabul A bereaved family cries for your help Taliban publicly execute woman (with photo and movie clips) Interview with many women kidnapped from Shamali regions Prostitution Under the rule of Taliban UN lashes out at Taliban for Violence against Women Large number of Afghan women are turning to prostitution Women Burning Under the Taliban Rule The Conversion of Girls Schools into Seminaries by the Taliban Taliban lashed a mother and her daughter publicly A Man Publicly Executed and a Woman Beaten Trafficking of Afghan Women from Kabul to Pakistan Cry of an Afghan women Lashing of women by Taliban Taliban impose new rules on women Trafficking of Afghan and Pakistani girls to Gulf states Women in Afghanistan suffer from depression Afghan female journalist survives life attempt Miserable life of educated Afghan women under Taliban rule Taliban Rules Weigh on Afghan Women Letter of a tormented Afghan woman to commemorate Princess Diana Mariam Girl’s High school turned into a market A woman’s sacred anger Attack on United Nations special girls’ schools Killing in front of the family members The Taliban Rapists Taliban raped two innocent girls Nazaneen’s Mother goes blind A woman challenge Taliban on the road Taliban’s another treatment of women Shakiba's Suicide The Wickedness of the Taliban and a couple Taliban raped Mariam in Kabul A woman stoned to death for adultery Taliban mistreat women Women under house arrest in Afghanistan Taliban's law drives women to suicide Taliban flog woman, cut off two men's hands Doctors ordered not ot treat women without their legal Mahrams What is going on Afghan widows? The Taliban's war on women (New York Times, Nov.6,1997) Girl-lashing by Taliban in Kabul The fundamentalist's gift: Prostitution Raping license Consequence of girls teaching Gang raping Execution for refusing forced marriage Women's self-immolation under the Taliban's domination A man and a woman are stoned to death by Jehadis (Photo) Dostum commander's crime "Women in their houses or in the grave" The fundamentalists and the Afghan women The gift of the fundamentalists Raping nine-year old girls Masoud's men rape foreigners The fundamentalists after gang-raping Shukria, killed her in cold-blooded Celebration of the conquest by raping Suicide to avoid rape Commanders have ten "wives"! The gift of the "Islamic revolution": Body-selling Women’s fault or cruelty in the name of "Shariat" (Islamic Law)? "Only loose women working in foreign aid agencies" Women workers beaten up in Kabul Taliban impose more curbs on nationals Foced abortion, Taliban style Reckoning for wearing thin socks
Gulbar, an Afghan woman who was burnt by her husband in Nov.2005 (details...)
Muska, a female election worker who committed suicide after rape attempt on her in Jalalabad on Oct.9, 2004 (details...) 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 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.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
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 of the fundamentalists brutalities against women More photos
WOMEN IN AFGHANISTAN: A human rights catastrophe
(Amnesty International document, March 1995)
Self-immolation among Afghan Women (horrible photos)
The Jehadi fundamentalists after gang-raping Shukria, killed her in cold-blood
Naheed another victims of the Jehadi Fundamentalists