Issues

The laws on domestic violence prevention in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan need to be developed and completed with more detailed prevention and protection mechanisms, according to experts from the countries.

Kazakhstan’s feminist activists thought it would take 10-15 years for gender inequality issues to be resolved. That was 25 years ago

Indian women form 620km human chain in support of lifting of temple ban.

“To offset a pessimistic scenario regarding peace with the Taleban, the Taleban must be notified that Afghanistan has changed and their era is over.”

Monday, 10 December 2018 Armanshahr Foundation, in collaboration with Afghanistan Women’s News Agency, Afghanistan Democracy and Development Organisation and the “Green Home” Influential Women and Youth Organization, held a public dialogue conference with the title […]

A three-day educational workshop on “sexual and gender-based violence and crimes in war and after war”, was organised by Armanshahr Foundation, in collaboration with Afghanistan Development and Democracy Organisation and Afghanistan Women’s News Agency, from 8-10 December 2018.

8 December 2018 Armanshahr Foundation is holding the 6th Human Rights Week from 8-14 December, as in the past six years, marking the National Day of Victims in Afghanistan (9 December), the International Human Rights […]

For this edition of the 5th International Simorgh Peace Prize, five schools from Kabul, Herat and Kandahar provinces were selected as the awardees of the lapis lazuli Simorgh Peace Statute.

The World Health Organization says the natural sex ratio at birth is about 105 boys to every 100 girls and its best to have equal numbers of men and women in a society.

Societal acceptance of domestic violence against women is widespread in developing countries, with 36 per cent of people believing it is justified in certain situations.