Issues
Abortion in Afghanistan: Trying to break a major societal taboo
Source: Quantara.de Birth control is a taboo topic in Afghanistan, the country with the highest birth rate in Asia. Many women resort to having illegal abortions in order to avoid social exclusion and to prevent […]
Saturday 10 May 2014Abdul Hamid Mobarez: “Democracy is the choice of the people and it is up to them to protect it”
Abdul Hamid Mobarez is a former chief of the official Bakhtar news agency, three-times governor and a founding member of the Federation and Chairman of Afghanistan National Journalists’ Union (ANJU). He was named Deputy Minister of Culture upon his return from exile.
Friday 9 May 2014Wahida Samadi: “The Taliban will never really change”
Wahida Samadi is the Director of Tahmina Organisation, promoting women’s rightsand a member of the Provincial Development Governance Committee. She is a committed civil society activist.
Thursday 8 May 2014Dr Saheb-Nazar Moradi: “We must unite against the extremists to defend the achievements of the past 10 years”
Saheb-Nazar Moradi is an urban development specialist and former member of the planning committee of Kabul Municipality. He has a Ph.D. in urban engineering and history. He was internally displaced and ultimately left the country in exile for many years.
Wednesday 7 May 2014Mahbuba Jamshidi: “It would be a tragedy for women to lose their legal status and rights in this political game”
Mahbuba Jamshidi was selected as the Director of the Women’s Affairs Department in Herat province in 2012. She has studied Miniature Painting at the Fine Arts School of the University of Herat. She is also the director of the National Gallery.
Tuesday 6 May 2014New Chapter for Afghan Publishing: Booksellers report brisk trade as appetite for reading grows in country’s east.
Five years ago, the shops on the ground floor of the Eshaqzai Market in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad were full of video recorders, CDs and DVDs. Now, instead of films and computer games, the shops are crammed with shelves of books, with students searching through them.
Monday 5 May 2014Aziz Deldar: “My greatest fear is a day when I may not be able to express what I think”
Aziz Deldar is a professor at the Fine Arts School of Kabul University. He is also a filmmaker and actor.
Monday 5 May 2014Sonia Iqbal: “We have not planned for economic recession, but it is sitting on our doorstep”
Sonia Iqbal is the executive director and a shareholder of PAHNA Group (a Kabul-based communications and management firm) as well as the president of Afghanistan 1400 Party, a civic-political youth organisation.
Friday 2 May 2014IRAN: International Workers’ Day: Release all trade unionists arbitrarily detained in the country
Source: FIDH Paris-Geneva, April 30, 2014 – On the eve of May 1, 2014, International Workers’ Day, the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, an FIDH-OMCT joint programme, is drawing attention to the […]
Thursday 1 May 2014Bakht Mohammad Bakhtiar: “We will return to the dark days of the past if we are not careful”
Bakht Mohammad Bakhtiar is the Director of the Social Sciences Centre of Afghanistan. He studied for his master’s degree in law in Kiev under the Soviet rule and became a member of the Academy of Sciences.
Thursday 1 May 2014
