Women

A businesswoman in northern Jawzjan province has established a tailoring and rug-weaving workshop, hiring 100 female workers.

Some women with obstetric fistula have said that after suffering falling victim to the disease, they faced different types of violence from their husbands which caused them serious psychological and social defects.

The owner of only women restaurant in western Herat province said she helped generate work opportunities for a number of women by opening a restaurant.

Women drug addicts in western Ghor province complain they are often slighted and even physically abused at times by local people.

KABUL (Pajhwok): US Special Representative for Women Rights in Afghanistan Rina Ameeri has said that women rights violated in Afghanistan in the past two years, a claim that acting government often rejected.

CHARIKAR (Pajhwok): Raisin’s export of the Parwan Raisin Production Factory to Russian has doubled and the number of its women employees increased by 78, according to the factory chief on Sunday.

The Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (MoLSA) says nearly 110,000 people, including 26,000 of them women, landed jobs in government and private institutions during the last nine months of the current solar year.

TALOQAN (Pajhwok): A youth has founded a carpet weaving factory in northern Takhar province and has hired 40 female weavers. The factory founder Hamid Qarluq

The Women’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry in northern Jawzjan province says the number of women applying for business licenses has increased compared to the past.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Former President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has stressed over serious attention to be paid to women living conditions in Afghanistan and the continuation of talks with Iran and Pakistan on the principles the foundation of which had been already laid.

A four-day exhibition showcasing handicrafts made by women has commenced in this capital city of western Herat province.

BAMYAN CITY (Pajhwok): Bamyan governor Mawlavi Abdullah Sarhadi has asked the United Nations to support Afghan craftswomen. Yasmin Jaswal, United Nations representative for women’s .