Bleak prospects for country's estimated 1.5 million widows

January 30, 2008 | IRIN

ABUL, 30 January 2008 (IRIN) - Knocking on the windows of cars stuck in traffic on Shar-e-Naw Street in Kabul, Zulaikha and her children beg for money to keep warm and feed themselves. Their daily routine starts at about 7am and ends at 6pm every day...

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Afghanistan: Women protest to support kidnapped aid worker

January 30, 2008 | Adnkronos International (AKI)

Kandahar, 30 Jan. (AKI) - Several hundred women have held a rare protest in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar calling for the release of a kidnapped US aid worker.

The 49-year-old American aid worker, Cyd Mizell, and her Afghan driver Muhammad Hadi were abducted from a residential neighborhood on Saturday by unidentified gunmen...

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Afghan woman is all about business

January 29, 2008 | Christian Science Monitor By Gayle Tzemach

Kabul, Afghanistan - In a small office hidden behind a gate in Kabul, Kamela Sediqi sits at her laptop and builds her business. The unlikely entrepreneur is the architect of Kaweyan Business Development Services, a consulting firm she started in 2004 with only her computer and her determination.

Barely 30 and on her third startup, Ms. Sediqi employs 25 men and women...

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Afghan Woman is all about business

January 29, 2008 | Christian Science Monitor By Gayle Tzemach

Kabul, Afghanistan - In a small office hidden behind a gate in Kabul, Kamela Sediqi sits at her laptop and builds her business. The unlikely entrepreneur is the architect of Kaweyan Business Development Services, a consulting firm she started in 2004 with only her computer and her determination...

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Afghan women in Kandahar demand safe release of female aid worker

January 29, 2008 | Relief Web

Hundreds of Afghan women on Thursday demonstrated in southern Kandahar province to condemn the abduction of female US aid worker and demand her immediate release.

They described the abduction as a violation of Islamic and Afghan values...

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Afghan woman sells daughter for $10

January 27, 2008 | Pajhwok Afghan News By Abdul Matin Sarfaraz

KUNDUZ CITY: Poverty, cold weather, and hunger forced a woman to sell her four month baby in Kunduz.

Mahboba, 26, whose lower limbs are paralyzed is living in a dark muddy room in Sar- dara area of Kunduz city.
Kabul in gap of poverty and destitution
UNICEF, Jan.22, 2008: About 600 children under five die every day in Afghanistan due to pneumonia, poor nutrition, diarrhoea and other preventable diseases... The country is ranked second in the world in terms of its maternal mortality rate with about 1,600 deaths per every 100,000 live births.

She told Pajhwok Afghan News while cooking in a muddy oven: "We have no food, my three children died due to cold weather; I was compelled to sell my four months old daughter only for 500 afghanis a day...

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Afghanistan official to speak at forum

January 26, 2008 | San Francisco Chronicle By Anastasia Ustinova

Afghanistan's Deputy Minister of Women's Affairs, Mazari Safa, will speak about the challenges facing Afghan women at an East Meets West forum today in Fremont. The annual event's host is the Foundation of Self-Reliance, a nonprofit group that helps Afghan refugees and widows.

The daylong forum dedicated to the 800th Anniversary of Rumi, the Sufi mystic and poet in the Persian language, will also include discussions about human trafficking, multiculturalism and fear of Islam in the United States.

The event is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Fremont Senior Center, 40086 Paseo Padre Parkway. Information is at www.efsr.org.

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AF team addresses local province women's needs

January 25, 2008 | Air Force Link News By Capt. Toni Tones

The needs and issues of the Afghan women of the Kapisa Province were addressed for the first time Jan. 22 in an unprecedented meeting with the Bagram Provincial Reconstruction Team.

More than 20 women representing six districts in the province traveled various distances to not only bring their issues to the table, but viable solutions.

"Women are an important part of society," said Capt. Erick Saks, the Bagram PRT representative. "We'd never had a meeting with just the women. We want to give them a voice and take their issues to the government."

The women's occupations ranged from lawyers to principals and teachers, to community and organization leaders...

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Afghanistan sets up prison for women

January 24, 2008 | Reuters By Hamid Shalizi, editing by Sayed Salahuddin and Sanjeev Miglani

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan launched its first prison for women in the capital Kabul on Thursday as part of a plan to build 15 such facilities, officials said.

Built with the assistance from Italy's government, the jail can accommodate 330 prisoners who currently languish in various prisons...

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Afghanistan sets up prison for women

January 24, 2008 | Reuters By Hamid Shalizi

Afghanistan launched its first prison for women in the capital Kabul on Thursday as part of a plan to build 15 such facilities, officials said.

Built with the assistance from Italy's government, the jail can accommodate 330 prisoners who currently languish in various prisons on numerous criminal charges...

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