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Tag: Forced Marriage

What I Learned from Women in Sar-e-Pul’s Villages

Posted on October 31, 2016 by Free Women Writers

Massouda Kohistani Recently, I had a trip to investigate the security situation and its impact on the residents of Sar-e-Pul…

Posted in BlogTagged Afghan Women, Afghanistan, Forced Marriage, Gender Equality, gender-based violence

To be an Afghan woman

Posted on June 17, 2016 by Wadia Samadi

Wadia Samadi I am born, and it is all quiet at home. To my parents I am already someone else’s…

Posted in BlogTagged Afghan Women, Afghanistan, discrimination, empowerment, equality, Forced Marriage, freedom, Gender Equality, gender-based violence, girls, women, women's rights

Too young to wed, too young to mother

Posted on June 10, 2016 by Free Women Writers

Awesta Telyar Azada Neda cries every time her child cries. She was only fourteen when her family decided to marry…

Posted in BlogTagged Afghan Women, Afghanistan, Child Marriage, discrimination, Education, empowerment, equality, Forced Marriage, freedom, gender-based violence, misogyny, women, women's rights

I Want Stones

Posted on January 7, 2016 by Free Women Writers

By Manizha Shahi I want stones as heavy as my trauma To throw at the chests Of the “enlightened” and…

Posted in BlogTagged Afghanistan, Child Marriage, Forced Marriage, gender-based violence, Poetry, Stonning, women

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Free Women Writers (also known as دختران رابعه) is an all-volunteer collective of writers, students, and activists based in Afghanistan and the diaspora and working for a more equal and just Afghanistan

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A collection of Afghan women’s writings in defense of our human rights, our first book was published in 2013. Read Daughters of Rabia here. Our second book is a short guide for women facing gender-based violence. You Are not Alone derives from years of research, speaking with survivors of violence and our experiences as women and survivors. Access this book in Persian, Pashtu, and English for free. 

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