Herat International Women’s Film Festival Launch
The cinema is a powerful medium to raise awareness on problems people face on a daily basis, sometimes without seeing them. This f…
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Girls and Schools in Afghan Society
Afghanistan has rebuilt an education system that had nearly stopped functioning. In 2002, only 900,000 students were in primary sc…
Female journalists in Afghanistan
Life for women in Afghanistan has never been easy. But being a woman and choosing to work as a journalist in an environment where …
با تجارب گذشته به پیش بسوی انتخاب آینده
افغانستان کشوریست با تجربه سالها جنگ و بدبختی که مشکلات زیادی را متحمل …
Education and Girls in Afghanistan
Education is another invaluable form of empowerment, and the progress made in women's education, even in far flung areas, is comme…
Violence Elimination Against Women
As the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women was marked in Afghanistan on November 25, a number of cerem…
Departing Afghanistan, Happy ending story
Today I depart Kandahar with mixed emotions. I am very much looking forward to reuniting with my family after having been away for…
Arranged marriages in Afghan society
After 11 years of Western intervention in Afghanistan, a woman's right to study and work had long since been codified by the U.S.-…
Broken hope for Afghan women
Women are in a worse condition now. Every day they are being killed, having their ears, noses cut. Human rights groups say this is…
Afghan Women Workers Face Violence
Women who pursue careers in ultra-conservative Afghanistan often face opposition in a society where often they are brutalized - fo…
