Promote participants advocate for their own futures, the future of their communities, and the future of all Afghan citizens — men and women. USAID supports training for survivors of sex trafficking that will get them off the streets and build their work skills and self-reliance. USAID is increasing access to education for girls by increasing the number and quality of woman teachers nationwide. University scholarships are moving more women into careers and job placement services are making them more competitive in the job marketplace. USAID saves lives by training female healthcare workers. USAID established a loan program agreement with a financial and banking company that has a specific loan product that focuses on women entrepreneurs and women owned businesses.

At least 11 women died in a crush at a football stadium in Afghanistan on Wednesday as thousands of people amassed to get visas to leave the country, officials said. Attaullah Khogyani, spokesman for the governor of the eastern Nangarhar province, said a further 13 people, mostly women, were injured at the Jalalabad stadium, where they were trying to get visas to enter Pakistan. He said most of those who died were elderly people and they came from across Afghanistan.

When the Afghan Parliament passed the law on the Elimination of Violence Against Women, human rights activists celebrated -- it would no longer be possible to get away with crimes against women such as rape, acid attacks or forced marriages. Those illusions quickly faded, and ten years later, being married off as a child, forced to marry to settle a family debt or threatened with "honor killing", despite being illegal, continue to happen to Afghan women every day. They are against international law, as well as Afghan law, and are among the grounds to be granted refugee protection.