Category: WOMEN’S RIGHTS

Exclusive: Women and girls denied the right to choose in personal, family matters

The findings of the Salam Watandar survey from the analysis of the conversations with 530 girls and women in six provinces show that 61.1% of the girls and women participating in this survey do not have the right to choose in life matters, and 39.9% of the participants said that they only had the right to choose in some aspects of life.

Exclusive: 17 new restrictions imposed on women in Afghanistan in one year

KABUL (SW) – Findings by Salam Watandar indicate that during the year (solar year) 1402 (21 March 2023 to 20 March 2024) at least 17 sorts of new restrictions were imposed on women in Afghanistan on top of the 49 earlier restrictions imposed in the previous two years under the de-facto government of the Islamic Emirate.