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): A number of women say they are deprived of partnership in management areas and call on the current government and the international community
KABUL (Pajhwok): US Special Representative for Afghan Girls and Women Rights Rina Ameeri has discussed the current situation of Afghan women and girls with the
A number of women in northern Jawzjan province, who have become self-reliant in cultivation of mushrooms, have called on the government to train them on how to grow other vegetables.
Customers, mostly women, in the capital of northern Faryab province, Maimana, complain about increased prices of daily use items amid lack of adequate economic conditions and urge the government to provide jobs to people.
ATLANTA (Pajhwok): The decision to suspend girls above the age of 13 from attending school is a catastrophic step backwards for Afghan society. However, Afghan
TIRINKOT (Pajhwok): A businessman in central Uruzgan province has provided job opportunities to about 650 women, most of them widows, with salaries from four to
KABUL (Pajhwok): The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has expressed concern over the situation of Afghan women and girls, saying the country should
JALALABAD (Pajhwok): The Work and Social Affairs Department in eastern Nangarhar province provided vocational training to 400 women in the past four months, an official
