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1 de jul. de 2022 · 1 July 2022 Human Rights. The situation for women is so desperate in Afghanistan that they are committing suicide at a rate of one or two every day, the Human Rights Council has heard. It comes as the top UN rights forum in Geneva agreed to Member States’ request for a rare Urgent Debate on the issue this Friday.
There are more women holding positions of power than at any other time in history: 27.7 per cent of the seats in parliament are held by women, four ministries and the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission are led by women and three women have been appointed as ambassadors. Furthermore, three women have been appointed as ambassadors. Afghanistan is one of only two South Asia countries ...
31 de out. de 2023 · Photo: Elise Blanchard/CARE. On the first day of my visit to Afghanistan, I walked into the women’s safe space in Ghazni, a small city 7,000 miles from my New York apartment, and immediately felt at home. I'd never been here, but I had a connection. My grandmother's family came from Ghazni, and ever since I was a child my father always speaks ...
27 de jul. de 2022 · Women protesters detained, forcibly disappeared and tortured Women and girls swept up in arrests and detained for ‘moral corruption’ Huge increase in child, early and forced marriages The lives of women and girls in Afghanistan are being devastated by the Taliban’s crackdown on their human rights, Amnesty International said in a new report published today.
5 de ago. de 2023 · Afghan women were brutalised in the law and in nearly every aspect of their daily life. A woman in Kabul had the end of her thumb cut off for wearing nail varnish, for example, in 1996. Men defending women’s rights and contravening the rules were also at risk. 'They shot my father right in front of me. It was nine o'clock at night.
15 de ago. de 2023 · Video Ad Feedback. CNN speaks to Afghan women about life after two years of Taliban rule. 05:08 - Source: CNN. Tuesday marks the two-year anniversary of Kabul falling to the Taliban, which seized ...
17 de abr. de 2024 · According to UNDP, women are finding ways to tackle the challenges in Afghanistan, where a total 15.8 million people are food insecure and the employment rate for working age female members has halved to six per cent since last year. Entrepreneurship has surfaced as a lifeline for women and their families, it said, noting that that 80 per cent ...
