report in The Daily Star, Mar 1, 2023A total of 232 women and girls faced violence in February this year, found a report prepared by Bangladesh Mahila Parishad. Of them, 40 females, including 24 girls, were raped, according to the organisation’s media-monitoring report. Seven females, including three girls, were gang-raped, one was killed after rape, and two girls died by suicide after rape during this period. Attempts have also been made to rape a total…
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By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press, Feb 26, 2023A group of females on Saturday announced the launch of the Afghanistan Women’s Revolution in Kabul, aiming to fight for fundamental human and women rights in the country. According to one of the organizers, Donya Safi, the movement aimed to “protect the basic rights of citizens, particularly women, as access to basic rights is a serious requirement for the citizens.” We started this campaign to fight the…
By Banafsha Binesh in ToloNews, Feb 24, 2023 at 8:31 PMThe International Crisis Group said in a new report that the latest restrictions imposed by the Islamic Emirate have dealt women’s freedoms a “grievous blow” in Afghanistan and that they are also impeding delivery of life-saving assistance, disrupting the world’s largest aid operation even as half the population suffers from acute hunger. “The unrecognized regime’s isolation undermines humanitarian and development efforts,” the report said. “It…
Whenever there is an incident of sexual assault or gender-based violence in Pakistan, we often end up with two tragedies for the price of one. First, there is the crime itself. Time and again, mostly, women who have the temerity to walk around in parks, go to work, school or just literally step out of their homes fall prey to the most brutal form of victimization imaginable. We are reminded, in the unlikely event that…
Editorial in Dawn, February 22nd, 2023THE political arena has become an increasingly crass and ugly place, where invective has overtaken debate, and basic civility is in critically short supply. For women politicians, it is far worse because they also have to battle the entrenched prejudice against females in the public space, which often emerges in the form of character assassination and threats. Social media platforms amplify the sexist vitriol. On Monday, the National Commission on…
report in Dawn, Feb 19, 2023QUETTA: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of the police has arrested a woman suspected of planning to carry out a suicide attack and recovered her jacket. The suspected was arrested near a park in Quetta’s Satellite Town when teams of CTD and intelligence agencies conducted an operation in the area against the outlawed Baloch Liberation Front (BLF), a CTD spokesperson said. He added the raid came after intelligence agencies received…
by Fatima Adib in The ToloNews, Feb, 16, 2023 at 9:25 PMThe presidents of China and Iran together called for an end to restrictions on women’s work and education in Afghanistan. The statement was made at the end of a visit to Beijing by Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi during which he discussed various issues with Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China. “The two sides … called on the Afghan rulers to form…
by Muhammad Arif Nasar in The Nation, Feb 8, 2023The writer is a freelance contributor.Education helps the sustainability of a society. It not only stabilises one society but helps the region in development. In today’s world where all the countries throughout the globe are working to improve their education system, the Afghanistan government, led by the Taliban, banned higher education for female students. Women play a fundamental role in a country’s politics, society, economy, and…
report in ToloNews, Feb 2, 2023 at 10:48 PMIn response to the ban on women attending university and working for NGOs in Afghanistan, the US State Department has imposed new visa restrictions on a number of current and former officials of the Islamic Emirate.7 The US State Department in a press statement said that the Islamic Emirate cannot expect the respect and support of the international community until they respect the human rights and fundamental…
by Anwar Iqbal in Dawn, January 22nd, 2023UNITED NATIONS: In a clear message to Kabul’s de facto rulers, a UN delegation has warned that isolating women will also isolate Afghanistan and as the country faces a terrible humanitarian crisis, it cannot afford to do so. The high-level UN delegation that visited Afghanistan this week, also urged the international community to support Afghan women. UN legal experts, in another statement, described the “collapse of the rule…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, Jan 21, 2023QUETTA: Four women among 15 people suffered injuries when a bomb blast derailed a Peshawar-bound train in Bolan district on Friday in an attack claimed by the banned Baloch Liberation Army. Officials said the explosion that derailed eight coaches of Jaffar Express along with its locomotive and damaged a portion of the main railway track linking Quetta with the rest of the country was carried out by a…