Security forces on Wednesday prevented dozens of women from protesting against the ban on beauty salons in Kabul city using tasers and shot their guns into the air. The Vice and Virtue and Complaints Ministry on June 26…
Some people and owners of the entertainment places have asked the ‘Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’ (IEA) to allow women and girls to go to entertainment places in compliance with Hijab and Islamic Sharia principles. Earlier, the IEA allowed…
A woman has committed suicide in Kajran district of central Daikundi province, police said on Tuesday. Provincial police spokesman Ghulam Javid told Pajhwok Afghan News the incident happened in Minara village of the district yesterday. Javid said the…
Farmer president Ashraf Ghani has accused the Islamic Emirate of depriving women of their rights and using them for political interests. In his message on the international women’s day celebrated yesterday, Ghani sympathized with Afghan women. He said:…
A woman in Kabul, who is teaching about 200 more women how to sew clothes, asks the caretaker government to support her to train more women in the profession. Rahima Hakimi, director of Razi Tailoring Course, told Pajhwok…
The Ministry of Vice and Virtue (MoVV) has rejected as incorrect meda reports about the closure of beauty parlors and shops run by women in northern Balkh and Baghlan provinces. MoVV spokesperson Mohammad Sadiq Akif on his twitter…
The ban on selling SIM cards to women in central Uruzgan province has created problems for females, but officials say telecom companies have been asked to createspecial SIM card sales sections for women and appoint female sellers. Alia,…
The United Nations and the European Union have expressed their concern and condemned new restrictions on women by the caretaker government of Afghanistan. On Sunday, the acting government declared that gyms and public baths were now off-limits to…
A non-governmental organization OSSP (Organization of Social Services in Poverty) has paved the way for hundreds of women to learn tailoring and get employment opportunities in northern Balkh province. OSSP recently started operating in Balkh and has been…
A group of women has provided employment to hundreds of other women through online marketing in northwestern Nimroz province. Farishta Gheljayee, founder of the online business network, in an interview told Pajhwok Afghan News many women who were…
Sixty-seven percent of the total rounded up beggars was professional beggars, 33 pc were deserving less fortunate persons while 75 percent of them were women, Pajhwok Afghan News learned on Thursday. The process of rounding up beggars from…
Health experts say men are more vulnerable to Covid-19 infection than women due to their lower immune system and work outside home. After emerging in the Wuhan city of China, the COVID-19 virus has spread around the globe.…
Two women have been arrested on charges of fraud in northern Takhar province, police official said.
A number of women in Kabul on Sunday asked the government to reopen girls schools above sixth grade. Holding a protest meeting, the women said the government should not deprive a large segment of the society from education.…
Female religious scholars and civil society activists should be allowed to participate in the upcoming grand assembly of clerics and tribal elders, participants of a meeting here said on Tuesday. Commencing on Wednesday, the three-day event is expected…
Bakht Bibi, a resident of southern Ghazni province, who has given birth to 12 children, says her elder son and daughter were killed in an airstrike two years ago while five of her children now suffering from…
Agriculture officials of Kulfgan district of northern Takhar province say many women started beekeeping in the area which helped to improve their family economy. Noorul Haq Alami, a beekeeper in Kulfgan district, is engaged in beekeeping since the…
A number of women on Tuesday protested in capital Kabul against the new hijab rules, while the Ministry of Vice and Virtue says that hijab is an Islamic rule and is mandatory. According to the decree the caretaker…
A number of women say they are deprived of partnership in management areas and call on the current government and the international community to resolve the problem from a religious and human rights perspective. Afghanistan’s Leading Women’s Movement…
A number of Afghan women and girls, reacting to the announcement of a new hijab plan by the government, say they not only have no problem with hijab, but also consider it an adornment for Muslim women. However,…
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.
The Work and Social Affairs Department in eastern Nangarhar province provided vocational training to 400 women in the past four months, an official said on Monday. Work and Social Affairs Director MawlaviFaridullahHaqani said these women were provided training…
A prestigious British university has announced granting admissions to 15 refugee women from Afghanistan. The University of Manchester announced providing free places to the Afghan women on its Masters in Educational Leadership in Practice programme. In a statement,…
