by admin_HRWF | Apr 26, 2021 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
The Herat Department of Women’s Affairs on Wednesday said that Taliban fighters publicly lashed a woman from Oba district over reports that she had an affair with a man. Tolo News (14.04.2021) – https://bit.ly/2Qq7tge – The video footage, which was...
by admin_HRWF | Oct 26, 2020 | Security x Religion
By Willy Fautré, Human Rights Without Frontiers The European Times (26.10.2020) – https://bit.ly/34rXBqn – On 17 October, a teacher at a middle school in a town northwest of Paris was beheaded on the street outside of his school. He was assassinated...
by admin_HRWF | Oct 20, 2020 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
By Stefanie Glinski Thomson Reuters Foundation (19.10.2020) – https://reut.rs/2HoPC4s – Women in Afghanistan are being forced to undergo so-called virginity tests, more than two years after a law requiring consent was introduced, researchers said on...
by admin_HRWF | Sep 29, 2020 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Reuters (24.09.2020) – https://reut.rs/3kS9afG – In Afghanistan’s southern province of Kandahar, rights activist Maryam Durani has found a fresh outlet for her decades of advocacy – a new fitness centre for women. Durani, 36, is a fierce...
by admin_HRWF | Jun 30, 2020 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
The Afghan government is facing hard decisions over the futures of hundreds of detained radicalised women and their children. By Elise Blanchard The Guardian (26.06.2020) – https://bit.ly/38cp8w6 – The “Daesh wives” from the Afghan branch of...
