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.
BAMYAN CITY (Pajhwok): A local NGO has provided jobs for 550 females after they completed carpet-weaving training in central Bamyan province. ACEBA is a .
FAIZABAD (Pajhwok): Muzhda Tabish, one of three dismissed Badakhshan University lecturers, calls her sacking a politically-motivated move, but officials reject her claim as baseless .
NANGARHAR (Pajhwok): Five hundred less fortunate women in four districts of eastern Nangarhar province will get financial support to grow vegetables at home gardens, an
ZARANJ (Pajhwok): For the first time, a couple in southwestern Nimroz Province has launched a beautification and healthcare items business. Reza Gull with the support
NELLI (Pajhwok): The deteriorated economic condition has hampered the market of handicraft items in central Daikundi province which were famous in the past, an official
KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): The Vice and Virtue Department in southern Kandahar province has banned women from travelling alone in taxis. Maulvi Abdul Rahman Tayyebi, head
MAZAR-i-SHARIF (Pajhwok): Tens of women in northern Balkh province have supported compliance with the hijab decree, calling it an Islamic order. Addressing a . .
ZARANJ (Pajhwok): SameeraNahtani is one of the thousands of Afghan women in southwestern Nimroz province who lost her husband in the past conflict and has
GARDEZ (Pajhwok): A number of university students in southeastern Paktia province called the hijab a national and religious value of Afghan women and supported the
