Women

BAMYAN CITY (Pajhwok): Women’s interest in making handicrafts and marketing has increased in central Bamyan province and they seek government’s cooperation in selling their products.

AIBAK (Pajhwok): About 300 women have been provided with work opportunities in northern Samangan province, the dried fruit trader association says. Abdul Khaliq, head of

KABUL (Pajhwok): Security forces on Wednesday prevented dozens of women from protesting against the ban on beauty salons in Kabul city using tasers and shot

KABUL (Pajhwok): Some people and owners of the entertainment places have asked the ‘Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’ (IEA) to allow women and girls to go

NEILI (Pajhwok): A woman has committed suicide in Kajran district of central Daikundi province, police said on Tuesday. Provincial police spokesman Ghulam Javid told Pajhwok

ATLANTA (Pajhwok): Farmer president Ashraf Ghani has accused the Islamic Emirate of depriving women of their rights and using them for political interests. In his

KABUL (Pajhwok): A woman in Kabul, who is teaching about 200 more women how to sew clothes, asks the caretaker government to support her to

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Ministry of Vice and Virtue (MoVV) has rejected as incorrect meda reports about the closure of beauty parlors and shops run by

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

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

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

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