Tolo News: The Independent Directorate of Local Governance (IDLG) has called for a stronger presence of women in local governance in the country. IDGL has stepped up efforts to increase the number of women in institutions in the capital and in the provinces, an official of the IDLG said Monday. Click here for more information (external ink).
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan March 7, 2016 Afghanistan’s Supreme Court has confirmed a 20-year prison sentence against a man who falsely accused a woman of burning the Koran, which provoked an angry mob to beat the woman to death near a Muslim shrine in Kabul. The court also confirmed prison sentences ranging from 10 to
Tolo News: Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM) on the eve of International Women’s Day launched a “women’s anthem” on Monday. Students at the institute and students from Marefat High School have sung the anthem which was played by the Zuhra Orchestra, led by Negin Khpalwak. Click here for more information and video (external link).
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan March 1, 2016 Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission says Afghan women and girls accused of so-called moral crimes are often forced to endure invasive and scientifically questionable “virginity tests” by government doctors. In a report published on February 29, the Afghan rights group said 48 out of 53 women that
Tolo News: Badakhshan Women’s Affairs Department has said that the non-implementation of violence against women bill has been the main reason behind the surge. Domestic violence, trying of women in open courts by the armed opponents and other illegal groups, forced marriages, sexual abuse and honor killings are among the main cases of violence against women in
Khaama Press: An Afghan woman has killed a Taliban commander over home privacy breach in northern Baghlan province of Afghanistan, security officials said Friday. Provincial police spokesman, Jawed Basharat, said the incident took place in Khwajah Bahauddin district of Baghlan province late on Thursday night. Click here to read more (external link).
1TV: Aqeela Asifi, An Afghan refugee woman is among 10 finalists in an international competition to find the world’s best teacher. Asifi set up a school soon after she fled war in Afghanistan more than two decades ago in the Kot Chandana village in Punjab of Pakistan. She started her school in a borrowed tent in
AFP: Single women and housewives swaddled in brightly coloured headscarves come together in a basement room for poetry reading. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: Women rights activists lashed out at government on Sunday for not ensuring justice in the Farkhunda case. They claim justice has not been served. The activists accuse the Supreme Court of negligence. An angry mob in Kabul, lynched Farkhunda, 27, last year, after falsely accusing her of burning the Holy Quran. She was beaten to death, and her
Tolo News: An Afghan woman has been flogged in public in Kohistanat district of Sar-e-Pul province after being accused of leaving her house with a strange man. Video footage handed over to TOLO news shows the woman being flogged by Taliban militants in the once peaceful district. This is the second such video to emerge in only a