{"id":38380,"date":"2021-10-26T16:00:02","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T07:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/oct\/26\/gunmen-killed-a-midwife-who-refused-to-leave-a-woman-in-labour"},"modified":"2021-10-26T16:00:02","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T07:00:02","slug":"gunmen-killed-a-midwife-who-refused-to-leave-a-woman-in-labour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38380","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Gunmen killed a midwife who refused to leave a woman in labour\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zahra Mirzaei pioneered \u2018groundbreaking\u2019 maternity services in Kabul, but has been forced to flee. She says she won\u2019t stop fighting for dignified care for Afghanistan\u2019s women and girls<\/p>\n<p>When Afghanistan\u2019s first midwife-led birth centre opened in the impoverished district of Dasht-e-Barchi in western Kabul this year it was a symbol of hope and defiance.<\/p>\n<p>It began receiving expectant mothers in June, just over a year after a devastating attack by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/12\/gunmen-attack-kabul-hospital-used-by-medecins-sans-frontieres\">gunmen on the maternity wing<\/a> at the local hospital left 24 people dead, including 16 mothers, a midwife and two young children.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/oct\/26\/gunmen-killed-a-midwife-who-refused-to-leave-a-woman-in-labour\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zahra Mirzaei pioneered \u2018groundbreaking\u2019 maternity services in Kabul, but has been forced to flee. She says she won\u2019t stop fighting for dignified care for Afghanistan\u2019s women and girlsWhen Afghanistan\u2019s first midwife-led birth centre opened in the impo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1410,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,2340,346,2400,1214,61,44,281,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-childbirth","category-health","category-midwifery","category-pregnancy","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-women","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38381,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38380\/revisions\/38381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}