Foreign Aid in Afghanistan

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As a first year Political Science student at Carleton University in Canada, I was eager to learn about how societies operated and got to the...

Kamal's Story: A Girl Who Defied the Taliban

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Zahira Sarwar, an Afghan-Canadian working at GTZ in Afghanistan recently conducted an interview with a girl who disguised herself as a boy ...

Afghan Feminist killed in Kandahar

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Sitara Achakzai, a female provincial official known for fighting for women's rights was gunned down by four Taliban on motorcycles in Ka...

New Afghanistan Law Rapes Women's Rights

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FEMINISM / POLITICS - An effort by ministers from the United States , Canada and other members of the 42-nation coalition fighting in Afgh...

Today is International Women's Day

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FEMINISM - March 8th is International Women's Day .

Afghan Bride says Indian husband is a bigamist

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FEMINISM - In recent years Indian women have been assaulted by so-called "moral police" for going to pubs. Meanwhile Sabra Ahmadz...

An interview with Sally Armstrong

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Canadian Sally Armstrong has championed the cause of women in Afghanistan and is the author of two books on the subject. She has recently w...

10 Arrested in Acid Attack

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Afghan police have arrested 10 Taliban militants involved in an acid attack this month against 15 girls and teachers walking to school in s...

Afghan child mortality linked to poverty

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According to a new study poverty, a lack of education of the mothers, child marriage, lack of maternal autonomy, shortage of basic material ...

Self-immolation on the rise

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In September 2008 Sarah, 20, set herself ablaze in a desperate bid to end her life after four years of marriage to a drug addict in Sheendan...

Rangina Hamidi

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While many women try to get out of Afghanistan , a country where women still face enormous hardships even after the 2001 U.S.-led invasion a...

Acid Attack On Afghan Schoolgirls

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Afghanistan education authorities say they are facing a difficult task of convincing parents to send their daughters to school as attacks o...

The Plight of the Afghan Woman

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By Abdullah Qazi The vast majority of Afghanistan 's population professes to be followers of Islam. Over 1400 years ago, Islam demanded ...

Afghanistan's Women Athletes

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Robina Muqimyar, (born July 3, 1986) was one of the first two women ever to represent Afghanistan at the Olympic Games, by competing along ...

Afghan woman makes her name in business world

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From war-torn Afghanistan , where her printing business came close to being destroyed by a suicide bomber earlier this year, Parwana Wafa tr...

Women reforming Afghanistan in their own image

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An eight-year-old girl is tethered to a plough, used like a farm animal to work in the field. When asked about her work conditions her ...

Company helping Afghan Women and Families

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Amid the arid lands of Afghanistan , where hills and snow-capped mountains surround deserts and poppy fields, a cloud of war hovers over the...

Afghan Widows Not America’s Enemy

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Afghan women – and widows in particular — are among the poorest and most disenfranchised people in the world. Under Taliban rule, women were...

Faith-Based Feminism

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By Daisy Khan RELIGION - If God had desired to exclude women from equal relationship with the Divine and essential participation in fashion...

Dr Sima Samar to be Honoured

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FEMINISM - The Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (TFD) announced yesterday it would honour Doctor Sima Samar, chairwoman of the Afghanistan I...