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(Last Updated On: March 15, 2021)
The situation of women journalists is worsening in Afghanistan, according to the annual report that the Centre for the Protection of Afghan Women Journalists (CPAWJ) published this week.
The report blames threats, violence, targeted killings, the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and the peace talks with the Taliban, as well as traditional attitudes towards the place of women in Afghan society.
The CPAWJ has registered more than 100 cases of aggression against women journalists – including insults, physical attacks, death threats and murders – in the past 12 months.
Of the 21 cases referred to the Centre by the women concerned, ten were evaluated by the Interior Ministry, five were investigated by the police and four of the women were placed in safe houses.