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November 29, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
KANDAHAR, 29 November (IRIN) - Some 100 women have attempted suicide by committing self-immolation or taking poison during the last eight months in the insurgency-hit southern province of Kandahar, an Afghan human rights watchdog said on Wednesday. Full news...
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November 29, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
A local commander and his 11 men gang-rape a 22-year-old woman in Shahre Buzurg district of the northeastern Badakhshan province on Nov.28. The crime took place in the Shah Dasht village, by a local warlord called Mujtaba who belongs to Jamiat-e-Islami Afghanistan led by Burhanuddin Rabbani (now member of the parliament). Full news...
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November 27, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: More than half of Afghanistan's children are not going to school because of a shortage of places and teachers, the aid agency Oxfam says. Full news...
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November 24, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Independent: Halima spends her life in the shadows. The light shows up her face, which bears the marks of her pain and humiliation - damage inflicted by her violent husband, while his family stood and watched. The 22-year-old woman's left cheekbone was shattered during one of the many beatings she had to endure for four years. Full news...
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November 18, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Blood dripped down the 16-year-old girl's face after another beating by her drug addict husband. Worn down by life's pain, she ran to the kitchen, doused herself with gas from a lamp and struck a match. Full news...
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November 16, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News - JAWZJAN CITY: About 400 residents of the northern Jawzjan province Thursday in a protest rally urged Juma Khan Hamdard to quit his position as governor. The locals accused Hamdard as inefficient, his links with Hezb-i-Islami, involvement in smuggling and weak management. Full news...
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November 16, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Sexual abuse, murder and other crimes of different types are increasing in the Northern provinces of Afghanistan and this situation has provoked the intense concerns of human rights and women affairs' activists. Full news...
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November 15, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: A commander of the National Army Unit of Shindand Airport in Herat Province injured a headmaster and student of high school and beat more than 20 teachers. Full news...
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November 11, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AP - KABUL - Eight-year-old Sajjad's kite struggles upward. It's nothing grand -- a plastic bag salvaged from a heap of garbage and fashioned into a diamond shape. But it's a symbol of change in Kabul, five years after the Afghan capital was freed from a Taliban regime that believed activities such as kite-flying would distract youngsters from studying the Islamic holy book, the Quran. Full news...
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November 7, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC (Persian Services): According to a report from the Northern Province of Takhar, tens of people staged a demonstration to protest rape of a girl by police in the Dasht-e-Qala district of this province. Also it is reported that selling of women has become very common in Faryab province in north of Afghanistan and each woman is sold up to 50,000 Afghanis (around US$1,000). Full news...
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November 5, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RAWA - Sanobar, 11-years-old daughter of Gulsha, an Afghan widow, has been abducted, raped and then traded in exchange for a dog by warlords in Aliabad district of Kondoz province in North of Afghanistan. Full news...
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November 5, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Sunday Times - THE first thing one notices about 16-year-old Gul Zam is her eyes, pretty and dark yet as watchful as a hunted animal's. But then the scarf covering her head shifts slightly, exposing a livid red scar on her neck. The hands that play nervously in her lap are ridged with pink burns that reach up her arms, across her chest and down her legs. Full news...