8, mrach 2018 Violence against children (VAC) is a significant international problem and, in Afghanistan, is particularly complex given the country has suffered armed conflict and extreme poverty for more than 30 years. The aim of this study was to examine the level of knowledge and observation of VAC by community leaders, professional groups, and…

Violence against women at Sudan’s universities has been In early January 2018, a video emerged and spread widely on Sudanese social media, appearing to show a vice-chancellor of Al-Ahfad University – a private women’s university in Omdurman, Sudan’s second largest city – physically assaulting female students. The video appears to show Professor Gasim Bedri grabbing…

  In spite of overmuch advocacy against women violence since 2001 it remains one of the most challenging problems in Afghanistan. it occurs everywhere and in various forms such as physical violence, sexual, economic, and psychological violence. It seems that with rise of poverty and insecurities, the violence against women also increased. More often Media…

The only female prosecutor in Kandahar province, Zainab Fayez, 26, has wrapped up around 50 cases of violence against women in the southern zone of the country in the past two and a half years. Fayez, said she supports women and ensures justice is served on perpetrators of violence against women. “Since I have been appointed here, 50 cases have been referred to…

Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is a serious human rights violation and a significant global health and security issue. Studies suggest that the rates, perpetrators and types of VAWG fluctuate during conflict; and there is some evidence that sexual violence against both women and men increases during conflict. The global prevalence of sexual violence…

Three Afghan journalists lost their lives within a week, including a reporter who succumbed to injuries following Thursday’s suicide attack in Kabul, a media support agency said Saturday. Hussain Nazari, cameraman of local Rah-e-Farda TV network, was buried Friday afternoon in western Kabul, Afghanistan’s National Journalists Union said in a statement. On Thursday, a suicide…

  5,October 2017 European governments have put thousands of Afghans in harm’s way by forcibly returning them to a country where they are at serious risk of torture, kidnapping, death and other human rights abuses, Amnesty International said today in a new report. At a time when civilian casualties in Afghanistan are at their highest…

Ghazni. 9th Sep, 2017. File photo taken on Sept. 9, 2017 shows Afghan journalist Ramatullah Nikzad in Ghazni city, Afghanistan. A local reporter was shot and killed in Afghanistan’s eastern Ghazni province on Monday, local police confirmed. Freelance journalist and chairman of Provincial Journalists Association Ramatullah Nikzad was shot by an assailant holding a silenced…

Jully 25,2017 Ten journalists have been killed in Afghanistan so far this year in militant attacks plotted by the Taliban and Islamic State loyalists, a media monitoring group said. Violence during the first six months of 2017 also wounded 12 journalists, the Afghan Journalists Safety Committee (AJSC) said in a report released Tuesday in Kabul….