Hillary meets Afghan women lawyers

January 28, 2009 | The Frontier Post

WASHINGTON (NNI): Secretary of State Hillary R. Clinton met at the State Department with fourteen prominent Afghan women judges, prosecutors, and defense attorneys...

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Afghan Women Jurists Visit

January 28, 2009 | Voice of America

A group of 14 prominent Afghan women judges, prosecutors, and defense attorneys recently completed a 2 week visit to the United States. The women took part in a training program arranged by the U.S. State Department's Public-Private Partnership for Justice Reform in Afghanistan...

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LEONARD PITTS: A story for women and girls, not just in Afghanistan

January 28, 2009 | The Modesto Bee By Leonard Pitts

A story for women and girls.

Shamsia was walking with her sister when a man on a motorcycle pulled abreast of them. "Are you going to school?" he asked.

She was. And this was, by definition, an incendiary act in Kandahar, Afghanistan, where the Taliban is making a comeback and posters on walls warn, "Don't Let Your Daughters Go to School." What happened next was monstrous. As recounted Jan. 14 by the New York Times, the man lifted the girl's burqa, exposing her face.

Then he sprayed it with acid. In all, 15 girls and their teachers at the Mirwais School For Girls were targeted by six men on three motorcycles in the November attacks.

Seventeen-year-old Shamsia Husseini got it the worst, according to the Times. She was left with jagged scars on her face and her vision was damaged.

The next day, the school stood empty.

And there the tale might rest...

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Why women are a safe bet

January 27, 2009 | CanWest News Service By Kate Heartfield

It's difficult, on this budget day when the talk is of deficit and recession, to trust our government, or the global financial system that got us into this mess.

So whom can we trust? Well, at its most basic, the global economy is about households. And in those households are women. It turns out poor women make for safe investments -- women husking rice or sewing sheets or weaving baskets, in houses that are about as different as you can imagine from the American McMansions that now have foreclosure signs on their once-manicured front lawns.

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Afghan Women's Project Comes to UW

January 27, 2009 | University of Wyoming

Talks and a photo exhibition that dispel myths about Afghanistan and its people will be presented at the University of Wyoming in early February.

Peggy Kelsey will present her work about Afghan women. Her talks will coincide with her photo exhibition...

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Afghanistan: maternal health factors improve, but high death rate continues - UN report

January 26, 2009 | UN News Centre

Despite a sharp increase in the number of midwives, health facilities, female health workers and educated girls in Afghanistan, the strife-beset country still has the world’s second highest maternal mortality rate, United Nations officials said today.

Early marriage - often under the age of 15 - and lack of access to medical intervention until complications become severe are two factors that have hampered improvement in the situation...

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UNODC donates computers to girls' schools in Afghanistan

January 26, 2009 | Relief Web

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has donated 60 used computers to the Afghanistan Women and Children's Rights Association for the benefit of girls' schools around Kunduz in north-eastern Afghanistan.

The donation consists of personal computers and monitors, and will be used in four schools in the Kunduz area, providing Afghan girls with the opportunity to gain information technology skills and access to modern communication technologies.

Over 6 million children were enrolled in schools in Afghanistan last year, 35 per cent of whom are girls who had been deprived of education under the Taliban regime...

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Threatening calls don't deter Afghan woman director

January 22, 2009 | Times of India By Shreya Roy Chowdhury

NEW DELHI: Drama abounds in Monireh Hashemi's life. On several occasions, her family has received threatening anonymous phone calls. A
24-year-old, she is a rarity in her country: a young, single, Afghan girl who writes, directs and acts in plays.

Hashemi comes from Herat in west Afghanistan. On Sunday she led a troupe of nine girls and six boys to perform a Dari play, Letter of Suffering, in NSD's theatre festival Bharat Rang Mahotsav...

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Photographer's work focused on women in Afghanistan

January 21, 2009 | Patriot Ledger By Dina Gerdeman

Paula Lerner hopes her pictures give a voice to people who do not have normally have one.

In documenting the lives of women in Afghanistan, she wants viewers to get to know her subjects almost as well as she got to know them in the time she spent with them...

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Afghan women learn here to oversee justice at home

January 18, 2009 | The Press-Enterprise By Richard K. De Atley

In downtown Riverside during the past week a group of dark-haired women, some distinct in head scarves and long embroidered dresses, have been making their way through various courthouses. They look intent -- like they are on a mission.

They are.

Fourteen Afghan women judges and attorneys have been learning how to administer justice in their country as it recovers from decades of war and oppression...

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