Tortured Afghan Teen: In-Laws' Sentences 'Not Enough'
15-year-old Sahar Gul was rescued from the home of her in-laws after being tortured for months. Last week, she stood before an Afghan court to see her...
15-year-old Sahar Gul was rescued from the home of her in-laws after being tortured for months. Last week, she stood before an Afghan court to see her...
Reuters | Posted 04.18.2012
By Mohammad Hamid KUNDUZ, Afghanistan, April 17 (Reuters) - About 150 Afghan schoolgirls were poisoned on Tuesday after drinking conta...
Michelle Barsa | Posted 05.27.2012
As the debates unfold over whether or not an international mediator might be required to support the Afghan peace talks, many in and out of Afghanistan have considered whether the UN might serve in this capacity.
Dr. Sasha Galbraith | Posted 05.15.2012
Several thousand rural, mostly illiterate women are now income-producing entrepreneurs in Afghanistan. Once again, the power of women helping women has turned a war torn territory into a peaceful profit-maker.
Shayna Zamkanei | Posted 04.21.2012
When talk of "abandoning" so-called baad victims to their fate becomes a way to legitimize NATO's further involvement in Afghanistan, we should be conscious of the way "saving Afghan women" can become yet another trope for imperialism.
AP | KAY JOHNSON | Posted 03.05.2012
KABUL, Afghanistan — Just 15 years old, Sahar Gul has become the bruised and bloodied face of women's rights in Afghanistan. The teenage bride's...
AP | Posted 03.02.2012
KABUL, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai says police will arrest members of a family accused of torturing and illegally detaining their son's...
Marla Mossman | Posted 02.15.2012
Posted 12.14.2011
A woman sentenced to 12 years in prison after being raped by her relative in Afghanistan has been freed, according to CNN. The woman, identified on...
Ahmad Shuja | Posted 02.04.2012
Many women hopelessly languish in Afghan jails for moral crimes -- falling in love with a man, eloping, indecency, marrying the man of their choice and, in this case, being raped.
nytimes.com | ALISSA J. RUBIN | Posted 12.02.2011
KABUL, Afghanistan — When the Afghan government announced Thursday that it would pardon a woman who had been imprisoned for adultery after she repor...
Abigail E. Disney | Posted 12.25.2011
Afghanistan should give us something to crow about. It's a place where the secret to a sustainable, effective peace can be found right before our eyes. It's in half the population: Afghan women.
Stephenie Foster | Posted 12.10.2011
I just returned from a two week trip to Kabul, Afghanistan, where I was working on a project focusing on reaching women as voters, candidates and elec...
Stephenie Foster | Posted 10.08.2011
The voices of young Afghans and women reflect the reality of what faces them as a country and the determination to make changes than benefit all Afghans. As we continue to debate our role in Afghanistan, it's those young people that I hear, and this book strengthens their voice.
Ida Lichter, M.D. | Posted 08.27.2011
Some observers would have us believe the Taliban have changed their misogynist ideology and deserve another chance in negotiations and power sharing.
Zainab Salbi | Posted 05.25.2011
The women of Afghanistan are not silent -- they are ignored. By standing together globally, we stand to ensure that it is unacceptable to exclude women from peace talks and for government to ignore the rights of the governed.
AP | TOBY STERLING | Posted 05.25.2011
AMSTERDAM — A South African photographer's portrait of an Afghan woman whose husband sliced off her nose and ears in a case of Taliban-administe...
Bloomberg | Bill Varner | Posted 05.25.2011
U.S. and allied military gains in Afghanistan have failed to yield corresponding progress in delivery of humanitarian aid or protection of women from ...
Ann Jones | Posted 05.25.2011
SCR 1325 calls for women to participate equally at decision-making levels in all processes of peacemaking. But in more than a decade since SCR 1325 was enacted, it has never been put to the test.
New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011
Even the poorest families in Afghanistan have matches and cooking fuel. The combination usually sustains life. But it also can be the makings of a hor...
The Nation | Posted 05.25.2011
I know Bibi Aisha, the young Afghan woman pictured on the August 9 cover of Time, and I rejoice that her mutilated nose and ears are going to be surgi...
The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011
Time Magazine is out with a new cover story that attempts to explain "What Happens If We Leave Afghanistan." The piece is accompanied by a powerful po...
New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011
After initially denying involvement or any cover-up in the deaths of three Afghan women during a badly bungled American Special Operations assault in ...
wowOwow | Gayle Tzemach Lemmon | Posted 05.25.2011
I first came to Kabul in the winter of 2005 to write about a topic considered unlikely by some and outlandish to everyone else: women's entrepreneursh...
Jodie Evans | Posted 05.25.2011
CODEPINK went to Afghanistan to hear what women there think about the push for more troops. And we found they want us to send doctors, teachers, engineers and business leaders, not more soldiers.
Posted 05.09.2012