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….
Gunmen have stormed a guesthouse in the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing a female German national and a security guard. Authorities are investigating whether the attack was terror or crime-related. The German Foreign Ministry has confirmed that a German woman was killed overnight Sunday in western Kabul. Najib Danish, a spokesman for the Afghan Interior Ministry,…
“We are adamant to follow up on all cases of violence against women so we can create a safe environment for women,” she told Radio Free Afghanistan. “We intend to fulfill the government promises and are working with the judiciary and the law enforcement to address violence against women.” According to global rights watchdog Human…
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Afghan Independent Journalists Association (AIJA) in condemning the killing of a journalist in an explosion in Helmand province, in southern Afghanistan on Friday, November 4. The IFJ demands urgent action from the Afghanistan government to ensure the safety for the Afghan media community. Journalist Nematullah…
Yaqoub Sharafat Radio Television Afghanistan October 16, 2016, in Qalat, Zabul Province, Afghanistan Unknown assailants shot Yaqoub Sharafat, a 23-year-old journalist for the state-run broadcaster Radio Television Afghanistan, the evening of October 16, 2016, in Qalat, the capital of southern Afghanistan’s Zabul province. The journalist was on his way home at the time, though press…
