RAWA News: Afghanistan under the brutal rule of the Taliban is a big prison and slaughterhouse for its women and girls. The past one year was a complete catastrophe for Afghan women in every field of life. However, Afghan women were in the forefront of the fight for justice and their rights. Despite being suppressed, tortured and jailed, they continue to voice their opposition to Taliban and their foreign masters. We have listed few out of hundreds of women killed in the past five months that have been reported in the Afghan media:
World Vision’s report, entitled, Afghanistan: A Children’s Crisis, was produced a year after political transition, and surveyed over 800 parents, caregivers and their children, to investigate how their lives have changed one year later.
An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 has killed at least 280 people in Afghanistan, officials have said, adding that hundreds of people were injured, and the toll was likely to rise as information trickled in from remote mountain villages.