Afghanistan

there is a place on earth where millions of people have peace. One out of three persons has been displaced and has sought refuge in neighboring countries. Millions of homes have been destroyed. A victim of the Cold war and superpowers…

OXFAM Briefing Paper ‘Women want peace but not at the cost of losing our freedom again.’ Noorjahan Akbar, co-founder of Young Women for Change Women in Afghanistan have achieved real progress in areas such as political […]

Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) READ AND DOWNLOAD FULL REPORT HERE Most of the women accused of the crimes, defined by the judicial and justice organs as moral crimes undergo medical tests. They are […]

HRW Heather Barr/ Senior Researcher, Women’s Rights Division Each year, dozens or even hundreds of women and girls in Afghanistan are subjected to invasive, humiliating, and sometimes painful vaginal and rectal exams in the name of […]

The advancement of women has always been central to our pursuit of national peace and reconstruction.

The Women & Youth Outreach Department of Free & Fair Election Forum of Afghanistan (FEFA) held a conference under the title of Women and Political participation to release its findings from 8 provincial focus groups and 6 consultation meetings on women and political participation.

Although women’s participation in parliamentary elections in the rhetorical discourses of changes in Afghanistan’s post-2001 context is framed as ‘new’, a quick overview of the historical-political context informs us of women’s presence in the political sphere much earlier than 2001.

The Afghanistan’s National Action Plan (NAP) on UNSCR 1325 women, peace and security is developed to address the challenges women faced in the aftermath of war and conflict in Afghanistan.

The past ten years in Afghanistan have proven to be a decade of remarkable progress in the lives of Afghan Women.

The complex challenges and opportunities of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda, as enunciated in United National Security Council Resolution 1325 of 2000, and several subsequent resolutions, lend themselves to both a “cup half full” and a “cup half empty” interpretation.