https://mariamalimi.webs.com/apps/photos/ women situation in Afghanistan A premature baby girl wears an oxygen mask at the Estiqlal Hospital in Kabul after being born two months early. According to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), only 14 percent of births in Afghanistan are attended by skilled health workers. Afghanistan’s fertility rate is the second highest in the world (Niger is the first). And some 121 out of every 1,000 Afghan women aged 15 to 19 years old have given birth to one or more children, according to UNFPA 2005-2010 estimates. Afghanistan’s population is around 27 million, and its annual population growth rate is 3.9 percent, added UNFPA. https://mariamalimi.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=77611089 77611089 An Afghan housewife bakes her family’s bread for the day in Takhar province. The wife of a disabled man and mother of five children, she manages and takes care of her household. Being a housewife and a mother in Afghanistan are two of the most dignified roles in Afghan society as household management and the responsibility of bringing up their children give Afghan women considerable authority in their domestic affairs https://mariamalimi.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=77611090 77611090 An Afghan woman working as a shoe keeper is lost in her thoughts at the entrance of a mosque in downtown Kabul. https://mariamalimi.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=77615025 77615025 she is one the few female photographers in Afghanistan. Used to work with AP for many years, now she is working by her own after the two years scholarship got in Canada, studied photography. she said',day by day the problems increasing to the Afghan women in any field they are working compare to 2004. we, as an Afghan female photographer cant move around the country in order to do our job, but we have to move with all difficults https://mariamalimi.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=92593964 92593964 as we have so many problems around living in Afghanistan, one of the important problem for children is to not have good park or a place to take them out of homes and let them to grow in clean and open area. children are like to be in the harden situation. https://mariamalimi.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=92593965 92593965 women and children are the poorest to do all the heavey jobs around the country in order to feed they are families. https://mariamalimi.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=92593966 92593966