The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) says Afghanistan risks losing up to 20,000 female teachers and 5,400 healthcare workers by 2030 as restrictions on girls’ education and women’s employment continue.
KABUL (Pajhwok): The caretaker government’s latest actions against women and girls deepen existing flagrant violations of their human rights and freedoms, say UN experts. The
TIRINKOT (Pajhwok): The ban on selling SIM cards to women in central Uruzgan province has created problems for females, but officials say telecom companies have
KABUL (Pajhwok): A 45-year-old woman, Noria, supports her family and her children’s education by cooking and selling bolani on one of Kabul streets. She is
ATLANTA (Pajhwok): The United Nations and the European Union have expressed their concern and condemned new restrictions on women by the caretaker government of Afghanistan
KABUL (Pajhwok): Some women journalists in the country have acknowledged reduction in the problems related to their profession but remained worried about low and delayed
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): A non-governmental organization OSSP (Organization of Social Services in Poverty) has paved the way for hundreds of women to learn tailoring and get
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): A women-only restaurant, offering quality food, has been opened in the capital of northern Balkh province. Najiba, owner of the . . .
ZARANJ (Pajhwok): A group of women has provided employment to hundreds of other women through online marketing in northwestern Nimroz province. Farishta Gheljayee, founder of
HERAT CITY (Pajhwok): A number of women in western Herat province have complained of street harassment, calling it the ugliest social interaction. Masuma, one of
ZARANJ (Pajhwok): Hailing from northwestern Nimroz province, a poetess wants women to help their men by observing the Islamic hijab in the reconstruction of their
