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April 3, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: A 20-year-old woman was burnt by her in-laws over family dispute in the eastern province of Kunar. Full news...
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March 16, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Baku Sun: One woman committed suicide by setting herself ablaze after her father-in-law tried to rape her. Another set herself on fire because her brothers would not let her marry, preferring that she remain their servant at home. Yet another told her mother before she died that her husband beat her daily. Full news...
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March 8, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: As a woman encouraged by relatives to marry her stalker - who was 20 years her senior, had three other wives and now beats her regularly - Qamar found it preposterous that anyone would ever celebrate her existence. Full news...
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March 8, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: Of all her desires, Fahima, 17, longs most for a life free of violence. "I was put into chains for a whole month by my father. I ran away twice but was returned home by the police. Everybody says I am the guilty one, that my father has the right to beat me," she said. Full news...
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March 7, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Daily Telegraph: MALALAI Joya says her mother worries about her - particularly when she travels to foreign countries. But when you consider that the 28-year-old youngest member of the Afghan Parliament has survived four assassination attempts in her own country, you would think her trips abroad would come as a welcome relief to her mum. Full news...
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March 3, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Green Left Weekly: The new constitution of Afghanistan formally grants equal rights to women and men. The government has also endorsed the UN Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), which, according to development agencies, is significant progress on gender equality “policy advocacy”. The first time I arrived in Kabul the women I saw on the streets were wearing scarves on their heads and those wearing full chador were a minority. Maybe, at a superficial glance, the situation had improved for the women of Afghanistan? Full news...
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February 21, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs: Jamila Niyazi has received several death threats as principal of Lashkar Gah girls’ high school in the southern Afghan province of Helmand. Niyazi, who oversees 7,000 girls, is a target for ultra-conservative elements, including Taliban insurgents, who use propaganda, coercion and violence to spread their influence. Full news...
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February 20, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Fawzia, not her real name, is twenty-one years old, I am twenty-two. So it seems strange to call her "grandmother". "My wife died, and I became young again!" laughed my 85-year-old grandfather. "There were some old women I could have married, but I wanted a young one. I do not think you can just divide young and old. So I decided to marry a young girl. Now I am very happy." Full news...
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February 16, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs: Sangima watched her sister-in-law Mastbegeen die trying to give birth to her seventh child. The baby was born prematurely and there was excessive bleeding during labour. There were no doctors or trained midwives near her village in the northeastern Afghan province of Badakshan to help so her family had to watch her life ebb away; the child did not survive either. Full news...
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February 13, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: Two young girls in Takhar and Uruzgan provinces committed suicide, the reason being domestic violence. With the suicide of another young girl, the number of suicide cases of girls and women in Takhar province has come up to seven. Full news...
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January 23, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: On 4 November 2006, Nasima, 25, a member of a local women’s council, grabbed the AK-47 from the policeman guarding the council meeting in the Grishk district of southern Helmand province and killed herself. Full news...
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January 22, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: Tired of the complex in-laws family hazards, a 16-year-old newly wedded woman has committed self-immolation in the northeastern Badakhshan province, officials said. Full news...
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January 18, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
MainStreetNews.Com: Madison County native Doris Aldrich will cover her head again next month and go to Afghanistan. She'll step off the plane in Kabul and ride past the starving and begging children with hands blackened by the cold. She'll feel that hurt inside that comes with witnessing suffering on a grand scale. Full news...
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January 16, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Ms. Magazine: A second drought in Afghanistan has affected over two-and-a-half million villagers, some of whom are selling their young daughters as brides in order to feed and clothe their families. Full news...
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January 9, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Institute for War and Peace Reporting: "The girl who was exchanged for a dog" has become a sensation around the world, sparking outrage in human rights circles. But the canine connection is a minor part of the story, a curiosity that served as a hook to bring the case to public attention. Full news...
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January 8, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: The prevailing cold wave has claimed lives of 11 children and women in the Shibar district of the central Bamyan province last week. Full news...
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January 7, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Observer: Azizgul is 10 years old, from the village of Houscha in western Afghanistan. This year the wheat crop failed again following a devastating drought. Her family was hungry. So, a little before Christmas, Azizgul's mother 'sold' her to be married to a 13-year-old boy. Full news...
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December 26, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC - Five years ago, after the fall of the Taliban, Afghanistan's new government pledged swift action to improve the lives of women. But a recent report by the international women's organisation Womankind Worldwide said millions of Afghan women and girls continue to face discrimination and violence in their day-to-day lives. Full news...
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December 12, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: Gulsoom is 17-years-old and married. Last year she tried to commit suicide - she failed. She set fire to herself but, against the odds, survived with appalling injuries. Her plight reflects that of a growing number of young Afghan women, campaigners say. Full news...
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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 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
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 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...
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October 31, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC NEWS - An international women's rights group says guarantees given to Afghan women after the fall of the Taliban in 2001 have not translated into real change. Womankind Worldwide says millions of Afghan women and girls continue to face systematic discrimination and violence in their households and communities. Full news...
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October 23, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
According to Women Affairs Department ill-treatment, domestic disputes and economic problems are behind the increasing incidents of women committing suicide in the southern volatile Helmand province, also known as centre of poppy cultivation. Full news...
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September 25, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC NEWS: Unidentified gunmen have killed a top women's affairs official in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, security officials say. Full news...
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