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AFP: A CIA expert has called for recruiting Afghan women in a public relations bid to persuade skeptical Europeans to support the NATO-led war effort, according to a document leaked Friday. "Afghan women could serve as ideal messengers in humanizing" the mission for European audiences, particularly in France, according to the CIA analysis, posted on WikiLeaks, a whistleblower website. Full news...
IRIN: Afghanistan’s hard-won post-Taliban human rights achievements are being eroded due to the persistent immunity from prosecution of powerful figures, the intensifying conflict, and the adoption of laws which undermine justice and human rights, a UN official warns. Full news...
PAN: At least two Afghan civilians were killed and four others wounded in crossfire between NATO-led forces and Taliban militants in southeastern Afghanistan, officials said. A mortar shell fired by NATO forces hit a house in the Chargoti village, killing a teenaged couple and injuring a man, his wife and two of their children, Madad added. Full news...
ABC News: Reports of sexual assault involving military servicemembers rose by 11 percent last year, but Pentagon officials said that was just what they were hoping would happen. There were 3,230 reports of sexual assault filed in Fiscal Year 2009, the Pentagon announced today. However, Pentagon officials see the rising numbers in a positive light because it has been a goal for the Defense Department to improve the reporting of cases of sexual assault.... Full news...
The Times: A family whose members were killed in a botched night raid in eastern Afghanistan have rejected “blood money” from the Government and vowed to carry out suicide attacks unless the perpetrators are brought to justice. Two pregnant women, a teenage girl, a policeman and his brother were shot dead on February 12 by unidentified gunmen. Eight men were arrested in the raid on the village of Khataba in Paktia province. They have all been released. Full news...
The Times: A night raid carried out by US and Afghan gunmen led to the deaths of two pregnant women, a teenage girl and two local officials in an atrocity which Nato then tried to cover up, survivors have told The Times. In a statement after the raid titled “Joint force operating in Gardez makes gruesome discovery”, Nato claimed that the force had found the women’s bodies “tied up, gagged and killed” in a room. Full news...
IRIN: As the world marks International Women’s Day, ambivalence, impunity, weak law enforcement and corruption continue to undermine women’s rights in Afghanistan, despite a July 2009 law banning violence against women, rights activists say. A recent case of the public beating of a woman for alleged elopement - also shown on private TV stations in Kabul - highlights the issue. Full news...
PAN: Despite efforts at improving their overall situation, women continue to be the target of violence in western Herat province, officials said on the International Women's Day. The Women Affairs Directorate said on Monday 633 cases of violence against females were reported in the province during the last solar year. Human rights officer at the directorate, Soraya Baleegh, told Pajhwok Afghan News the cases were linked to an increase in the number of drug addicts and growing poverty. Full news...
McClatchy Newspapers: The military helicopters swooped in from behind the three-vehicle convoy as it wound through a remote road in southern Afghanistan , and survivors of last week's deadly attack said they had no idea they were in danger until the lead four-wheel drive exploded. After seeing the gruesome aftermath of that rocket strike, survivors of the NATO attack told McClatchy , women jumped from the second car and frantically waved their head scarves to try to stop the attack. Full news...
This is a story about the women and children of Badam Bagh, the only women’s prison in Kabul. It is home to some 90 inmates, many of them mothers. Eighteen-year-old Krishma is one of them..... Fawzia, inmate: “It’s been two months since my arrest. I’m in here because after my husband had hit me, I got angry so I left my house and went to stay with my sister-in-law.” ... In another country, Fawzia and many of the women here would not even be in jail. They would be considered victims rather than perpetrators. Full news...
The Times: Relatives of 27 people killed when Nato aircraft bombed a civilian convoy in southern Afghanistan have demanded that foreign forces leave the country. Afghan officials said that at least four women and a child were among the dead. Twelve other civilians were wounded when three minibuses were attacked on Sunday in a remote part of Uruzgan province. The local governor and the Interior Minister said that all of the victims were civilians. Full news...
PAN: Police found a married girl stabbed in the neck inside a ruined house in northwestern Ghor province late Saturday evening, officials said on Sunday. The 16-year-old, identified as Shakar, was shifted to a nearby health facility, where doctors say the girl is still in comma. Doctors at Ghor Civil Hospital said the teenager was in a critical condition after she was stabbed in the neck. Full news...
RAWA News: According to reports by Afghan media, ordered by a local warlord called Fazl Ahad, two Afghan women were publicly flogged in Ghor province in Western Afghanistan. Spokesman of Ghor’s Governor, Abdul Hai Khatibi said these women were forcibly married in Dolina district, but later they both ran away from their husbands' houses. Police in Heart arrested the two and returned them to their village and handed over to their husbands. Full news...
PAN: The bodies of a dozen people killed in a NATO air strike in Marja district two days ago were handed over to their families. A Marja dweller, who visited the hospital to receive the bodies of his relatives, said he lost 10 members of his family in the strike. He added his parents and a young brother were among his other family members dead in the assault. "No one attacked foreign forces from our house and there were no fighters hiding in our house," he explained. Full news...
CNN: Four people found dead in a southeastern Afghan compound appear to be victims of an honor killing, a senior U.S. military official said on Friday. The bodies were discovered during an operation by Afghan and NATO-led forces in Paktia province, a volatile region along the border of Pakistan. NATO's International Security Assistance Force said the bodies of two men and two women were found Full news...
The Sydney Morning Herald: Anyone who has witnessed the horror of a charred body and the putrid stench of burned flesh knows how these sights and smells are seared into your psyche. But to witness such horrific injury to the body of a young woman who has purposefully done this to herself - in a desperate attempt to die – is almost too much to bear. Sydney filmmaker Amin Palangi kept his head down and his eye behind the camera as he filmed shocking scenes of burned young women and girls beng treated in Afghan hospitals. Full news...
The Huffington Post: In Shinwar, a district of Nangarhar province, there are two markets, one called Shadal and the other, Pikheh... these markets have one main commodity. And that commodity is women. In Nangarhar markets exist where women are sold. Cases have been reported where a woman was sold with her five children. Another woman was sold to five different people and returned back to the original man who sold her, then killed her. Full news...
PAN (Translated by RAWA): The police say that they have arrested a Mullah Imam (a religious cleric who leads the prayers) in connection with the rape of two women in the Imam Sahib District of Kunduz Province. Police chief of Imam Sahib District, Abdul Qayum Ibrahimi stated the culprit’s name as Mullah Rahmatullah and told PAN that he was an Imam in the mosque of the Baika village and had been arrested two days back as he thought to be involved in the rape of two women. Full news...
PAN (Translated by RAWA): 17-year-old Amina of Chakhansoor District of Nimroz Province committed self-immolation and died because of a forced engagement to an old man. Habibullah, one of Amina’s relatives, told PAN that Dur Mohammad had engaged his daughter (Amina) to 55-year old Faiz Mohammad and in exchange had engaged Faiz’s 22-year old daughter to himself. Full news...
t r u t h o u t: Two reports coming out of Afghanistan illustrate the depth of hypocrisy and subterfuge characterizing the US/NATO intervention in that country. One could cite a myriad of such examples, so immoral and wrong is the US war there. "Self-immolation is being used by increasing numbers of Afghan women to escape their dire circumstances ...." Full news...
PAN (Translated by RAWA): With the death of this newly-married bride the number of dead girls and women in this area of the western region has reached 47 this year. The doctors in the regional hospital of Herat say that this woman was called Halima and had died in the hospital two nights back. Dr. Mohammad Arif Jalali, director of the regional burn hospital of Herat told PAN that 15-year old Halima, resident of the Qadis District of Badghis Province, had married three months back. Full news...
The Canadian Press: More Afghan women are choosing suicide to escape the violence and brutality of their daily lives, says a new human-rights report prepared by Canada's Foreign Affairs Department. The 2008 annual assessment paints a grim picture of a country where violence against women and girls is common, despite rising public awareness among Afghans and international condemnation. Full news...
PAN (Translated by RAWA): Workers in the Human Rights Commission of Daikundi Province say that a woman was ousted from her home due to the violence by her husband and died outside on the way. Hassan Ali Faiz, director of the Human Rights Commission of Daikundi Province told PAN that the incident had occurred on the night of 10th Muharram (Dec. 28) in the Ishtarli District. Full news...
New York Times: Capt. Margaret H. White began a relationship with a warrant officer while both were training to be deployed to Iraq. By the time they arrived this year at Camp Taji, north of here, she felt what she called “creepy vibes” and tried to break it off. In the claustrophobic confines of a combat post, it was not easy to do. He left notes on the door to her quarters, alternately pleading and menacing. He forced her to have sex, she said. Full news...
IRIN: Rabia, 14, is expecting her first child almost a year after getting married to Haji Obaidullah, aged 49, as his second wife. “She is supposed to deliver in a few days, but this is her first visit to a health centre,” said Nazia Hemat, an obstetrician at Mia Abdul Hakim Hospital in the southern province of Kandahar. Rabia is fortunate in being able to visit the hospital: “Men often don’t allow their pregnant women to go to hospitals and doctors,” Full news...
The Los Angeles Times: Several hundred women, many holding aloft pictures of relatives killed by drug lords or Taliban militants, held a loud but nonviolent street protest today, demanding that President Hamid Karzai purge from his government anyone connected to corruption, war crimes or the Taliban. Full news...
Reuters: Afghan women are among the worst off in the world, violence against them is “endemic” and Afghanistan’s government fails to protect them from crimes such as rape and murder, a rights group said on Monday. Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report the situation for women in Afghanistan is “dismal in every area”. Full news...
The Guardian: The already dire plight of women in Afghanistan risks deteriorating further as the US and its allies take steps to turn around the war against the Taliban, according to a report by Human Rights Watch today. Eight years after the Taliban were ousted from power, rapists are often protected from prosecution, women can still be arrested for running away from home, and girls have far less access to schools than boys, the report says. Full news...
IRIN: Eight years after the formal end of Taliban rule in Afghanistan, women are facing growing challenges in public life and have limited access to justice, according to the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). "The space for women in public life is shrinking," warned Norah Niland, head of UNAMA's human rights unit and a representative of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Full news...
Reuters: Rape in Afghanistan is under-reported, concealed and a human rights problem of "profound proportions", the United Nations said on Monday. Norah Niland, the United Nations' human rights representative in Afghanistan, said field research conducted late last year and early this year found rape affected all parts of Afghanistan, across all communities and social groups. Full news...
ww4report.com: Authentic Afghan voices for democracy, secularism and women's rights oppose the US/NATO occupation precisely because the US has connived with fundamentalist war criminals from the day it arrived in Afghanistan. Foremost among these voices is the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), who maintained clandestine schools for girls under Taliban rule at the ultimate personal risk. Full news...
Al-Jazeera: The last time I stood by the bedside of a woman who’d tried to burn herself to death was in Kandahar one year ago. She was screaming in pain and later died. It was not an experience I wanted to repeat. But this week I found myself in the Burns Unit at a hospital in Herat watching a mother spoon feed her child some rice through lips that were horribly blistered. Full news...
The FINANCIAL: Human rights activists have noted a large-scale growth in violence toward Afghan women, hundreds of whom are beaten, intimidated or sexually assaulted by men daily. According to the human rights activists' publication, the number of suicides among women has also grown... Over the last week, there were five such incidents. Full news...
Reuters: "I was seven-year-old when I got married. I did not have kids till the age of 12. I became a mother of four kids. My husband is a drug user. I asked him to stop using drugs many times, but he wouldn't stop. I warned him that I would have no choice but to kill myself if he didn't quit using drugs. He couldn't do it, and that is why I burned myself." Full news...
PAN: Department of Women's Affair in Baghlan province reports a worrisome increase in the scale of violence against women, including murder and suicide, this year as compared to the previous year. With heightened concern, the department says up to 74 cases of violence were recorded since the beginning of this year, against last year's 67 cases. Full news...
IRIN: The average per capita monthly expenditure of nine million Afghans is less than 66 US cents a day, and millions of other Afghans spend about $42 a month, according to a summary of Afghanistan’s new National Risk and Vulnerability Assessment (NRVA). NRVA 2007/08 was produced by the government with European Union funding and in collaboration with aid agencies. A bleak picture is painted. Full news...
Foreign Policy In Focus: While President Barack Obama reviews his strategy on Afghanistan, a perfect moment to send a strong unified message to end the war is slipping through our fingers. Whether it's because we seem to have bought into the lies about the goals of this war or because we mistakenly feel that a Democratic president is going to come to the right conclusion on his own, one thing is clear: There's no debate within the Democratic Party or in the White House about whether to end the war. Full news...
NBC News: Seventeen-year-old Shirin had been brought to the Herat Regional Hospital Burns Unit a few days before we met her. ... In the first seven months of this year, medical staff at the Herat’s burns unit – the only one of its kind in the entire country – said they have seen 51 cases of female self-immolation. Only 13 have survived. Full news...< Previous 1 2 3 ... 19 20 21 ... 26 27 28 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