We read a lot about women in Afghanistan. Afghanistan’s all-women orchestra founded in 2014 performed at the World Economic Forum last January 2017 at Davos in Switzerland, Afghan women participated in Bamiyan’s international marathon, the Afghan Aviation Forces are counting always more women pilots, and an all-girls robotics team from Herat wins a top European competition. […]
New assaults on women’s independence in Afghanistan
A new harsh assault has been carried out in the last couple of days aimed at undermining women’s independence in Afghanistan. Afghanistan is arguably the most dangerous country for women and changes towards a tangible improvement of Afghan women life and condition is still too little and too slow. Last night unidentified armed men set on fire […]
10 year old Afghan girl found on basement after months of abuse
Robabeh, a ten year old Afghan girl tells local Radio Azadi her story of how she was held in captivity on a basement and abused by her 80 year old husband in the center of the Afghan capital, Kabul. In the past year Afghanistan’s human rights watch reported a variety of abuses, but the story of […]