Afghanistan

MPs have asked officials to take measures to manage the air pollution in Kabul, saying it has become a serious issue.  

Armanshahr|OPEN ASIA 5th Simorgh Peace prize: 2,000 children from Herat, Kabul and Kandahar provinces run a campaign to raise their voice for peace and an end to the ongoing conflict which has gripped the Afghans over the past 27 years.

“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 […]

Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) against both women and men remain invisible and go unpunished. FIDH calls on the ICC and national jurisdictions to step up the fight against impunity for sexual violence.

5th round of Simorgh Peace Prize: thirty best works of Afghanistan’s children is published over a 30-day campaign to expose their clear voices celebrating peace and rejecting war.

From domestic violence to forced sex work, and women categorised as “moral criminals” are jailed alongside convicted murderers.

The Many Dangers of Being an Afghan Woman in Uniform. Afghanistan has never come close to its set recruitment benchmarks for women.