HERAT CITY (SW) – In the face of mounting restrictions on movement and liberties, women in Herat province have turned to small scale domestic entrepreneurships to secure a livelihood for their families.
KABUL (SW) – In response to the statements of the participants of the Doha meeting regarding the violation of human rights and women’s rights, Acting Minister of Higher Education, Neda Mohammad Nadim said that the Islamic Emirate has paid more attention to ensure women’s rights in Afghanistan.
KABUL (SW) – Zabihullah Mujahid, the spokesperson for the Islamic Emirate, has rejected concerns raised in Munich, Germany regarding human rights situation in Afghanistan.
KABUL (SW) – Women artists are among the worst hit by the recent political and economic turmoil in Afghanistan, but their miserable plight has hardly
KABUL (SW) – Salam Watandar has found in a series of exclusive interviews that a large number of women have been denied their right to ‘Mahr’ money after their divorce by husband or his family to them.
Salam Watandar’s survey findings, based on responses from 412 girls and women across 26 provinces in Afghanistan, reveal that 84% of participants reported experiencing violence from the same gender (female). In contrast, 16% stated that they had never been subjected to violence by womn.
Violence against women is a term in which men are generally known as the perpetrators, and based on the definition of this phenomenon by the United Nations, any gender-based action that threatens the safety and health of women physically, sexually, and psychologically, is violence. However, as it seems, violence against women is not only caused by men, and this phenomenon includes wider dimensions such as the imposition of force and violence by women against women.
MONITOIRNG (SW) – On Friday, the UN Women’s agency said that two mothers are killed every hour in Israel’s war on Gaza.
KABUL (SW) – Ambiguities remain around the de-facto government’s stated public policy and actual actions regarding the female public sectors work rights and salaries.
KABUL (SW) – Salam Watandar’s research based on interviews with 14 female kindergarten teachers, 12 of whom were employed in public kindergartens and faced dismissal in the last year, reveals that they are grappling with severe economic challenges.
KABUL (SW) – The dawn of 2024 brings no respite in the plight of Afghan women and girls reeling from persisting restrictions and tragedies as Salam Watandar takes a glance at some of the key events that shaped their lives in 2023.
KABUL (SW) – The Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (MoPVPV) authorities have confirmed reports of the moral police rounding up girls in Kabul over their alleged inappropriate dress code in defiance to the Islamic Sharia and in order to prevent “obscenity”.
