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Afghan girls embrace school
Melanie Stetson Freeman – Christian Science Monitor – Thursday, 06 September 2012 (originally published 03 Sept) Girls take notes in a home economics class. Girls from grades 1 to 9 attend the Speena...
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Afghan women educated through cellphones
AFP – Dawn – Friday, 23 November 2012 (originally published 14 Nov) Afghan women sit in a class and study using mobile phones in Kabul. Image:AFP KABUL: Afghanistan has launched a new literacy...
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Why U.S. can’t deliver women’s rights to Afghanistan
Malou Innocent – CNN – Tuesday 2 March, 2013 Women of Afghanistan are used to false promises made by the U.S. and others. Image: AFP/GETTY/Lemmon Editor’s note: Malou Innocent is a foreign policy...
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Protections For Women Under Threat In Afghanistan
Abubakar Siddique and Qadir Habib – Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty – Wednesday, 26 June 2013 (originally published 24 Jun) Two Afghan women in Kabul walk past posters of presidential and provincial...
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Afghan woman brings education to orphans
DE – DW – Monday, 14 October 2013 (originally published 10 Oct) Andeisha Farid’s organization gives orphans extra lessons after school. Image: Amdeosja Farid/AF CECO Andeisha Farid grew up in refugee...
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Women rangers now roam Afghanistan’s first national park
David Bradfield – The Guardian News – Thursday January 2, 2014 (originally published 31 Dec) The Band-e Amir lake in Afghanistan Photograph: Massoud Hossaini/AFP/Getty Images It took 62 years for women...
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An Afghan town gets its first female high-school graduates
Mujib Mashal – Al Jazeera America – Thursday, 13 February 2014 (originally 08 Feb) The first female graduates in the history of Old Aqcha pose with the school’s founder, Mohamed Ishaq, back row, third...
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From secret school to Afghanistan's future
Sean Coughlan – BBC News – Wednesday, 26 March 2014 (originally posted 22 Mar) Shabana Basij-Rasikh has set up a college to train women leaders in Afghanistan. Image: BBC News Running your own...
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9 Historic Photos of Afghan Women Standing Up to the Taliban
Iva Dixit – PolicyMic – Wednesday, 09 April 2014 (originally published 07 Apr) An Afghan woman shows her inked finger after voting in Jalalabad. Image: AP “The people out there are scared as hell of...
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[Afghanistan] I’m a Woman Who Lived as a Boy: My Years as a Bacha Posh
Jenny Nordberg- Times – Tuesday, 16 September 204 (originally published 15 Sept) The Underground Girls of Kabul. Image: Times Liberating. That’s how it felt, walking out the door for the first time as...
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