The Afghan government has scrapped its plan to take over shelters for abused women and will work with women’s groups to improve shelter conditions. Score one for the human rights movement!
Here at UN Dispatch, we’ve been following the controversy over the Afghan government’s plan to wrest control of women’s shelters from the non-governmental organizations currently running them and apply highly restrictive admissions criteria for abused women and girls. Some updates from the past 48 hours.
Facing a government crackdown on shelters for abused women, activists explain in detail why the government’s impending takeover of women’s shelters will be a human rights disaster.
To stop an imminent government takeover of shelters for abused women, Afghan human rights activists are fighting back, in public and behind the scenes, and rallying supporters in Afghanistan and abroad.
The struggle for human rights in Afghanistan received an alarming setback when the Afghan government announced that it will take over all women’s shelters in the country within weeks.
Human rights advocate Hamida Barmaki and her entire family were among those killed when a suicide bomber blew up a crowded supermarket in Kabul on Friday.
Most NGOs receive funds from governments, but funding doesn't usually translate to control over the day-to-day work NGOs carry out.
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