30 Oct 2011 | no comments » women
During the Taliban regime women were locked up in at home, they were not allowed to go out for shopping or work in the public places. Since the fall of the Taliban in late 2001, many would agree that the political and cultural position of Afghan women has improved substantially. Today, Afghan women have a predominant presence in the Afghan political domain. According to UN, women represent almost 28% of Afghanistan’s National Parliament, 9% higher than the world’s average of women in parliament.
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24 May 2011 | no comments » women
Tahira’s home was bombed in the early morning while she was preparing for prayers. After the explosion she got up and ran to where her husband and 15 old son were sleeping and found the room no longer existed. She and one of her surviving sons worked to bring their bodies from the rubble, but were unable until they received help from people in their neighborhood.
I pictured her in 2008 while I was working for Jason P. Howe a British photojournalist in Kabul. Portion of this information courtesy of Our Bombs website that funded the project. You can got to their website and see some more picture. I might upload some photos related to the same subject but of course dissimilar to what you see on Our Bombs’ website. Portion of information will match up the Our Bobms’ and I am confidently use their caption because I have talked to Jason and he agreed.
22 Jan 2011 | no comments » women
Sorya is a high school student, in her spare time, she helps her siblings collecting grapes on farm. Education under the Taliban went from bad to worse. Under the Taliban rule she wasn’t able to go school neither could work in the field. During the Taliban’s rule, only about 3 per cent of girls received some form of primary education. The prohibition of female education, coupled with the cultural mandate that women receive their health care from female health care providers, resulted in a vulnerable population receiving care from poorly-educated providers.
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12 Jan 2011 | 1 comment » Uncategorized, sport, women
Sport is a way for oppressed Afghan women to fight oppression. Noria is an 18 year old girl who returned to Afghanistan after spending half of her life as a refugee in Iran. For Noria nothing is important but self-control and patience that she tries to learn every day and then teach others. Those values are great pushing power for her and other women to carry on being involved in the sport they love and dream about being world champions for their country.
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08 Feb 2010 | no comments » Children, hazara, women
Education is a source of social and economic advancement as well as a vehicle for teaching children to be good citizens. She is a young girl in district of Sharestan (Shahrestan) province of Daikundi, who never had opportunity to go to school. For the last years, billions of dollars poured in Afghanistan but life in Hazarajat central part of Afghanistan never improved. Hazaras as a minority are almost forgotten. Estimates suggest that 30% of Afghan children are engaged in child labor, and discriminatory traditional practices make girls more vulnerable.
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