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...
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...
