The Forum on Women, Peace and Security in Afghanistan, 4-6 December 2012, jointly supported by the N-Peace Network and the Research Institute for Women, Peace and Security (RIWPS), was attended by women Members of Parliament and more than 80 women representatives of the Provincial Peace Councils
A rowdy protest of about 200 people, half of them women wearing burqas, demanded Friday that parliament reinstate a female MP suspended for comparing her colleagues to animals.
The US House of Representatives voted 406 to 10 yesterday to pass an omnibus bill that will provide security and economic assistance to Afghanistan and will limit funds given to warlords in high-level offices.
"Women who go to work every day in Afghanistan are heroines," says journalist Friba Chalkhi Habib. She knows what she is talking about: the 30-year-old is regularly threatened or insulted, like many Afghan women in high-profile jobs.
Nazari, an Afghan parliamentarian, is the driving force behind the country's first political party dedicated to women's rights and issues.
Suspension of Female MP One Year Ago Is Setback for Democracy.One year after her illegal suspension, the Afghan parliament should reinstate Malalai Joya to office, Human Rights Watch said today.
The high-level delegation, which included representatives of the upper and lower houses of Afghanistan's National Assembly, conducted three days of meetings with NATO officials aimed at discussing the role of Afghan women in supporting stability in the country, NATO reported.
Hamid Karzai has been accused of trying to win votes in Afghanistan's presidential election by backing a law the UN says legalises rape within marriage and bans wives from stepping outside their homes without their husbands' permission.
Afghan women protesting against a law said to legalise marital rape have been pelted with stones by conservative opponents in Kabul. The group of up to 300 women faced a barrage of abuse and small stones from a counter demonstration up to twice the size of their protest.