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The Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) has publicized that there has been a noteworthy increase in the number of honor killings of native women in Afghanistan. IRIN News, a United Nations humanitarian news and information service has said that this is because of the discrimination against the women and the fragile laws that is [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Feminist Majority, Honor Killings, Lifestyle
Gunman on 25th of September outside of her home killed Safia Amajan, the provincial director of Afghanistan’s Ministry of Women’s Affairs in Kandahar. It has been assumed that she was murdered because of her candid support for women’s rights and her altruistic work towards opening girls’ school in Afghanistan. According to BBC, she was getting [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Kandahar, Lifestyle, Safia Amajan
Minister of International Cooperation and Minister for Official Languages and La Francophonie, Josee Verner pronounced two new projects in Afghanistan that would focus the role of women and girls in society. She made the declaration on her visit to the nation with the Ministers of Education and Women’s Affairs, Hosna Bano Ghanzanfar. Elaborating further, she [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, Girls' Education Project, Hosna Bano Ghanzanfar, Integrating Women Into Markets, Josee Verner, Lifestyle, Mennonite Economic Development Associates
Life for women in Afghanistan is as always going through the tough patches however, United Nations program of bee keeping by the female refugees is a ray of hope towards earning their livelihood. Participation of approximately 50 women has been recorded in the program that first started in Jalalabad suburb in end of June this [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Bee Keeping, Jalalabad, Lifestyle, Taliban Regime, United Nations
Two girl karate players compete in the First Women’s Olympics of Afghanistan in the capital city of Kabul, Nov. 6, 2006. The games, which last from Nov. five to nine included basketball, karate, judo, volleyball and taekwondo competitions. Two girl karate players compete during the First Women’s Olympics of Afghanistan in the capital city of [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Kabul, Lifestyle, Women's Olympics
A famous line goes, life is beautiful provided you accept it as it comes to you but unfortunately, this line holds no importance to the women folk in Afghanistan. Recently, a case has come up where a 13-year-old girl has tried to burn herself in order to break away from the life’s difficulties. Afghanistan is [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Homayoon Azizi, India, Iran, Islam, Lifestyle, Self-Immolation, Uzbekistan
Said T Jawad, an Ambassador of Afghanistan to the United States emphasized that education is the only tool, which would be instrumental in empowering women in the society. While addressing at the students at Thunderbird University where 15 Afghan businesswomen graduated, Jawad asserted the given statement. An Afghan News Pajhwok reveled that the participants of [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Pajhwok, Politics & Society, Said T Jawad, The United States, Thunderbird University
Were girls; were sensible in addition to experienced, trying to live nearly our likely. We’re interested in learning the earth we all are in, and that we need to make an impact. We all delight in the actual reward of womanhood and most specifically, to be able to search inside, drive the particular limitations products [...]
Tags: Afghani women, Afghanistan, Kabul, Womanhood