RAWA Newsletter
This is latest newsletter with 9 news items.
1.
Here, a woman is worth only half a man
2.
U.S.-led air raid killed 11 in Afghanistan which sparked protests
3.
Afghanistan on brink of failure
4.
Young girl commits suicide in Parwan
5.
Another baby was sold due to extreme poverty
6.
Afghan woman sells daughter for $10
7.
Taliban militants behead 4 workers in Afghanistan
8.
Bleak prospects for estimated 1.5 million widows in Afghanistan
9.
Young Afghan woman tries self immolation
1- Here, a
woman is worth only half a man
The Deccan Herald: Unicef's winner
of the best picture in 2007 is a chilling reminder of the condition of the
region's child brides. Poverty may have made women and young girls more
vulnerable, but the methods of exploitation they suffer take on an altogether
different proportion in a country wracked by 30 years of unending
conflict.
2-
U.S.-led air raid killed 11 in Afghanistan which sparked
protests
Reuters: Nine police and two civilians were killed in an
air strike by U.S.-led troops in Afghanistan, a provincial doctor said on
Thursday, but the coalition said Taliban fighters had been killed.
3- Afghanistan on
brink of failure
Badger Herald: Every now and then, I run across
a news story that reminds me of the importance of individual liberties in modern
society. One of these stories came out of Afghanistan this Wednesday.
4- Young girl
commits suicide in Parwan
Pajhwok Afghan News: Reportedly
dejected with her engagement to a young man by her parents, an 18-year-old girl
ended her life by shooting herself to death in Jabul-Saraj district of central
Parwan province, security officials said on Sunday.
5-
Another baby was sold due to extreme poverty
Pajhwok Afghan News:
After the blood-curdling incident in Kunduz province yet another baby was sold
due to extreme poverty and hunger in northern Takhar province.
6- Afghan woman
sells daughter for $10
Pajhwok Afghan News: Poverty, cold
weather, and hunger forced a woman to sell her four month baby in Kunduz.
Mahboba, 26, whose lower limbs are paralyzed is living in a dark muddy room in
Sar- dara area of Kunduz city.
7-
Taliban militants behead 4 workers in Afghanistan
Xinhua: Taliban
militants beheaded four local employees of a private construction company in
eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, said the Interior Ministry in a press
release.
8-
Bleak prospects for estimated 1.5 million widows in
Afghanistan
IRIN News: Knocking on the windows of cars stuck in
traffic on Shar-e-Naw Street in Kabul, Zulaikha and her children beg for money
to keep warm and feed themselves. Their daily routine starts at about 7am and
ends at 6pm every day.
9- Young
Afghan woman tries self immolation
PAN: A dejected young Afghan
woman having a domestic dispute with her husband tried to take her life in
Mehtarlam High Court on Wednesday, court officials said.
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
(RAWA)
