Category: Special Coverage

Exclusive: 84% of women subjected to domestic violence by women

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.

Exclusive: Salam Watandar gauges the level of violence faced by women

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.

President Ghani off to Qatar, Kuwait

President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani left Kabul for Kuwait and Qatar on Monday. A member of the Taliban delegation in Qatar, Abdul Haq Waseeq told Salam Watandar the group has no meeting scheduled with the Afghan president.