by admin_HRWF | May 5, 2020 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Barriers, discrimination in health care, education. HRW (27.04.2020) – https://bit.ly/2Yzlda3 – Afghan women and girls with disabilities face high barriers, discrimination, and sexual harassment in accessing government assistance, health care, and...
by admin_HRWF | Apr 21, 2020 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
By Tameem Akhgar AP News (19.04.2020) – https://bit.ly/2KikEJg – On most mornings, Somaya Farooqi and four other teen-age girls pile into her dad’s car and head to a mechanic’s workshop. They use back roads to skirt police checkpoints set up to...
by admin_HRWF | Apr 8, 2020 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
The most recent attack has been linked to ISIS extremists, but mainstream persecution is the norm By Sunil Kukreja Asia Times (01.04.2020) – https://bit.ly/2XiVfa4 – The terrorist attack that killed 27 Sikhs in a centuries-old gurdwara (Sikh...
by admin_HRWF | Sep 3, 2019 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
RFERL (28.08.2019) – https://bit.ly/2lvJtbH – Afghan women are still being imprisoned for failing virginity tests, despite a nationwide ban on the unscientific practice, U.S. National Public Radio (NPR) reported on August 27. Farhad Javid, an...
by admin_HRWF | Nov 6, 2018 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
By Frud Bezhan RFERL (20.10.2018) – https://bit.ly/2AP4Dqo – The scenes of a public flogging in a Taliban stronghold in northern Afghanistan showed two women in blue burqas kneeling nearly motionless as a man beat them over their heads and bodies...
