27-28 November, 2023 Reimagining Afghanistan: Ways Forward The Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS) will organize “Herat Security Dialogue-XI” on November 27-28, 2023 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. The theme of this year’s conference will be “Reimagining Afghanistan: Ways Forward”. As in previous years, the Conference will bring together representatives, experts and activists of Afghanistan, regional/neighboring countries […]
All-female group of robotics students develops COVID-19 ventilator
An all-female group of robotics students in the Afghan city of Herat has developed a prototype ventilator for COVID-19 patients based on a design by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Afghan Robotics Team hopes to get approval from the authorities to produce the machines. To watch the Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty film […]
Women make up 40% of Herat voters.
Herat women turned out in their thousands to vote on Saturday ( 21.10.18) IEC officials confirm. Officials from the Independent Election Commission of Afghanistan (IEC) on Sunday said that over 320,000 people cast their ballots in Saturday’s parliamentary elections in the western province of Herat, of which almost 40 percent were women – writes Ghafoor Saboory […]