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‘Writing Hawa' Documents a Woman's Journey of Emancipation in Afghanistan (Exclusive Trailer)
Writing Hawa by Afghan filmmaker Najiba Noori and co-directed by Rasul Noori is set to world premiere in the international competition at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam ...
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Every Two Hours A Woman Dies During Childbirth In Afghanistan
A woman dies from pregnancy related complications in Afghanistan every two hours due to a lack of access to health care and ...
Holyrood4d
Women's Studies: How 19 female medical students brought from Afghanistan became a symbol of hope
It has been seven months since the medical student arrived in Scotland to pursue the education she had been cut off from in ...
Human Rights Watch1y
Human Rights Developments
With few exceptions, women were not permitted to work. Entire families were driven into destitution as a result. Another group specifically targeted by the Taliban was the Hazaras, a Shi‘a ...
Al-Monitor2y
Afghanistan's Hazara minority increasingly fearful under Taliban
Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...
Human Rights Watch8y
V. ABDUCTIONS OF AND ASSAULTS ON WOMEN
A Hazara woman, who was a nurse ... The refugees from Mazar-i Sharif are scattered throughout Afghanistan and Pakistan. Rape victims are unlikely to seek medical attention unless their injuries ...
Business Insider2y
Afghanistan's non-violent resistance against the Taliban is led by women who risk torture and detention: 'Fear is everywhere'
When the Taliban came to power last summer, Wahida Amiri couldn't sit quietly. She, alongside other women, gathered and staged protests in Kabul and other cities — a move that would lead to her ...
Amnesty UK11mon
Women's Rights in Afghanistan
The Taliban's 2021 takeover in Afghanistan was a disaster for women's rights, causing an almost complete reversal of the hard-won human rights progress over previous decades. Our latest reports show ...
KPFA1y
International Women's Day
KPFA celebrates International Women’s Day on Saturday, March 15th with an all-day audio extravaganza  to draw attention collectively to gender equality and justice, reproductive rights, environmental ...
Morning Star3mon
Afghanistan: Hazaras protest after vital power line is rerouted
The demonstrators, mostly of the Hazara ethnicity, are calling for the proposed Tutap (Turkmenistan-Uzbekistan-Tajikistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan) 500 kilovolt power transmission line to follow original ...
SBS2y
From refugee to beauty contestant: How a Hazara woman defied the odds in Australia
She told SBS Dari that taking part in such a competition would’ve been unimaginable in Iran, and her Hazara homeland, Afghanistan ... “In countries where women are kept at home, [they ...