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Shame and Impunity: Is violence against women becoming more brutal?

Wazhma Samandary •

A father raping his daughter over almost ten years without the family daring to intervene (except to help with abortions); a woman burnt after a family fight; another woman mutilated because her husband enjoyed doing so – these are just some of the cases of violence against women and girls that have been reported in […]

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Elections 2014 (30): Some initial reflections on E-Day II

Thomas Ruttig •

The counting of second round votes from the presidential elections is still under way in much of Afghanistan, although results are now trickling in from some polling stations. Meanwhile, everyone is trying to assess how well the second round went: the impact of security incidents, level of fraud and, especially importantly, how big the turnout […]

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Elections 2014 (25): Election mobilisation of women in the Pashtun southeast

Pakteen Ibrahimi • Thomas Ruttig •

For the second round of the presidential election on 14 June 2014, some of the major tribes in Paktia have decided their women should also participate more actively, allowing them to cast their votes themselves. Women turnout in Pashtun-inhabited areas is usually below average, which is increasingly being perceived as a disadvantage by candidates relying […]

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Taliban 2.0: Die neue Generation der Gotteskrieger ist frauenfreundlicher, aber noch gefährlicher

AAN •

Die Welt (Germany), 1 June 2014 German-language article, with the help of anonymous Afghan reporters, about the new, internet-syvvy generation of the Taleban, with quotes from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig and Borhan Osman.

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A War with No End in Sight: The Backlashes Regarding Afghan Women’s Rights

AAN •

Oxus Post, 9 March 2014 Autorised republication of Sari Kouvo's AAN dispatch "A War with No End in Sight: The Backlashes Regarding Afghan Women’s Rights".

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Afghan law to be revised after pressure on women’s rights

AAN •

AFP/New Straits Times, 17 February 2014 In an article reporting that President Karzai has ordered amendments to a proposed law criticised for eroding women’s rights, the author quotes from AAN's recent dispatch on the matter, authored by Sari Kouvo and Wazhma Samandary: “Although there is important mobilisation against violence against women,  there is also a backlash,” […]

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A War with no End in Sight: The backlashes regarding Afghan women’s rights (amended)

Sari Kouvo •

A man cuts off the nose and lips of his wife. He does this because his wife refuses to give him her jewelry to buy drugs, and he does it in front of the couple’s children. This happened on 13 December in Herat, and rightly so, the incident received considerable media and civil society attention. […]

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Auftrag und Verantwortung? Die afghanische Lektion

Thomas Ruttig •

HR2 (German radio), 7 January 2014 Listen to an hour-long special (in German) on Afghanistan, featuring women activists, a former Afghan Bundeswehr employee, the band Kabul Dreams and AAN’s Thomas Ruttig.

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Blick auf Afghanistan 2013/2014

Thomas Ruttig •

Radio Eins (Germany), 27 December 2013 Listen to the audio of a year-ender interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, pointing to the meagre military and socio-economic balance of the Western intervention and looking forward to the 2014 presidential election (in German).

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Lack of cash and monitors add to Afghan election troubles

AAN •

Reuters, 1 December 2013 A good overview over shortcomings that stand in the way of orderly 2014 elections: "Organizers of Afghanistan's make-or-break presidential election next year say poor security, a shortage of monitors and funding holes are undermining their ability to safeguard the process from the widespread fraud that marred the last poll in 2009." Worryingly, […]

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