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Photo: February 2013 women’s march in Kabul, via RFE/RL
The US government’s announcement that it has opened negotiations with the Taliban to help bring the war in Afghanistan to an end should be a source of concern for women’s rights advocates everywhere. While it’s still not easy to be a woman in (...)
19-year-old Rokhshana was accused of trying to elope with another man but was arrested, tried and executed in a Taliban-controlled area.
[Photo: Radio Liberty: A still from a video purporting to show the execution of 19-year-old Rokhshana, who was accused of trying to elope with another man] (...)
The following is the official statement of the Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) international solidarity network and its partners in Afghanistan, which is addressed to all parties, particularly Afghanistan’s donor countries, who are supporting the direct talks between the Taliban and (...)
This is a personal story, and it’s hard to tell because nobody knows how it will end. I first went to Afghanistan in 2002, where I volunteered with two small nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) staffed by Afghan women: widows, university students, teachers. I’ve gone back to Afghanistan to work (...)
(Reuters) - Muzhgan Masoomi’s attacker stabbed her 14 times with a thick blade used to slaughter animals, tearing wide gashes in her flesh before leaving the government worker for dead on the outskirts of the Afghan capital.
With a severe limp and no control over her bladder - caused by the (...)
Afghanistan: Hundreds of Women, Girls in Jail for ’Moral Crimes’ says HRW
Human Rights Watch: Government Should Target Abusers, Not Victims
(Kabul) March 28, 2012 – The Afghan government should release the approximately 400 women and girls imprisoned in Afghanistan for “moral crimes,” Human (...)
I have been working on women’s human rights for many years, most recently with the Centre for Secular Space , a new global think tank formed to oppose religious extremism, strengthen secular voices, and ensure that the rights of women, gays, and religious minorities don’t disappear from view in (...)
Women Living Under Muslim Laws
STATEMENT:
In wake of the exclusion of the Afghan women from the ‘peace process’ at the Bonn Conference that is to take place on the 5th of December 2011,
WLUML vigorously denounces:
• the ethical incoherence of States that engaged in a devastating war in (...)
The war in Afghanistan costs US taxpayers two billion dollars a week. However, these phenomenal figures have not translated into anything tangible for Afghan women.
Ten years ago on October 7, the NATO troops, captained by the USA, landed Afghanistan. This UN-mandated invasion was coached in (...)
AFGHAN WOMEN NETWORK
AFGHAN WOMEN: TOWARDS BONN AND BEYOND
POSITION PAPER 06 OCTOBER 2011
INTRODUCTION
Despite many positive advancements in Afghan women’s lives over the past ten years, progress remains fragile and at times limited to rhetoric. There have been countless numbers of (...)
KABUL, Jul 13, 2011 (IPS/Al Jazeera) - My mother entered the house and pushed the door closed with anger. After getting a cup of green tea, she sat in front of the television as her children watched her with concern and confusion.
“These men are not human beings. They probably do not even (...)
This is yet another sign of a conservative resurgence in the country as discussions about peace deals with the Taliban grow louder.
The Italian women’s organization, CISDA – Coordinamento Italiano Sostegno Donne Afghane - denounces the draft regulation promoted by the Council of Ministers in (...)
The Global Campaign to Stop Killing and Stoning Women and the Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) International Solidarity Network condemn the recent incidents of violent punishments by the Taliban in Afghanistan.
On Sunday 15 August, a couple in their twenties were publicly executed by (...)
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban on Sunday ordered their first public executions by stoning since their fall from power nine years ago, killing a young couple who had unsuccessfully tried to elope, according to Afghan officials and an eyewitness.
The punishment was carried out by hundreds of (...)
I know Bibi Aisha, the young Afghan woman pictured on the August 9 cover of Time, and I rejoice that her mutilated nose and ears are going to be surgically repaired. But the logic of those who use Aisha’s story to convince us that the US military must stay in Afghanistan escapes me. Even Aisha (...)
While Sharbat Gul’s eyes powerfully transfixed the world from the cover of National Geographic in 1985, Aisha’s ordeal depicted on the cover of Time this week fixates our attention on where her nose would be. The metaphoric pain in the eyes has given way to the figurative – in this case, the (...)
Self-presention taken from Rawa website March 25, 2010.
RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, was established in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1977 as an independent political/social organization of Afghan women fighting for human rights and for social justice in (...)
Thursday 4 February 2010 by siawi
The picture said it all; an expanse of suits broken only by Hillary’s blonde bob floating in their midst. The London Conference on Afghanistan gave birth to sweeping statements and soaring ambitions. But were they, in the end, as flat as those grey rows of (...)
While the only official woman delegate in the Afghan mission to the London Conference pleaded that women’s rights must not be sacrificed on the altar of security concerns, women’s rights activists who had also travelled to London brought their own message
At the conclusion of a gathering of (...)
“Women are made for homes or graves.” —Afghan saying
Gen. Stanley McChrystal says he needs more American troops to salvage something like winning in Afghanistan and restore the country to “normal life.” Influential senators want to increase spending to train more soldiers for the Afghan National (...)
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