Taliban beat Afghan woman as protest in Kabul turns violent: Reports
3 years, 3 months ago

Taliban beat Afghan woman as protest in Kabul turns violent: Reports

India Today  

The ongoing women-led protest in Kabul took a violent turn on Saturday after the Taliabn stopped their way to the presidential palace and lobbed tear gas on them, according to TOLO news. In a video shared by Etilaatroz news publisher Zaki Daryabi, the woman, identified as Rabia Sadat, could be seen with a bleeding forehead. pic.twitter.com/1s3El4TZHW — Zaki Daryabi September 4, 2021 Look to the footage: What is happening with #women marches in #Kabul. #Afghanistan pic.twitter.com/vqa8QONLOj — Zaki Daryabi September 4, 2021 This is the third straight day when Afghan women have taken to the streets in the country.

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UN Security Council criticises Taliban ban on Afghan women's medical education
1 week, 2 days ago

UN Security Council criticises Taliban ban on Afghan women's medical education

Hindustan Times  

The UN Security Council has said it was deeply concerned about the recent decision by Afghanistan's Taliban rulers to ban women from medical education, which could leave millions of women and girls without health care in the future. UN special envoy for Afghanistan, Roza Otunbayeva, told the council this week that women and girls are “facing progressive erasure from almost …

UN Security Council criticizes Taliban ban on Afghan women’s medical education
1 week, 3 days ago

UN Security Council criticizes Taliban ban on Afghan women’s medical education

Associated Press  

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council said Friday it was deeply concerned about the recent decision by Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to ban women from medical education, which could leave millions of women and girls without health care in the future. In a resolution adopted unanimously Friday, the Security Council criticized not only the medical education ban but the Taliban’s …

Thanks to the Taliban’s new rules on birth, even more women will die
2 weeks, 3 days ago

Thanks to the Taliban’s new rules on birth, even more women will die

The Independent  

The faces of the midwives who delivered my children are etched into my memory: Minnie, who performed an emergency episiotomy as my eldest’s heart rate yo-yoed alarmingly, and Barbara, who calmly manoeuvred my youngest into place after her shoulder wedged itself dangerously into my pelvis. On Tuesday, reports indicated that it had shut down midwifery training colleges in the country, …

'Afghanistan needs educated women too': Top cricketers demand reversal of Taliban's ban on women education
Trending News
2 weeks, 3 days ago

'Afghanistan needs educated women too': Top cricketers demand reversal of Taliban's ban on women education

Firstpost  

The Taliban administration, earlier this week, banned women from pursuing nursing and midwifery courses. After they were barred from education beyond secondary school as part of restrictions labelled “gender apartheid” by the UN, women flocked to these health institutions, one of the only avenues left open for them A mother holds her child as she rests in her arms, while …

All the ways the Taliban are restricting lives of women in Afghanistan
2 weeks, 3 days ago

All the ways the Taliban are restricting lives of women in Afghanistan

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Here is a list of activities from which Afghan …

Afghanistan’s Rashid, Nabi urge Taliban to revoke ban on women’s education
2 weeks, 4 days ago

Afghanistan’s Rashid, Nabi urge Taliban to revoke ban on women’s education

Al Jazeera  

The star cricketers were responding to reports that the Taliban had forbidden females from receiving medical education and training. Afghanistan’s top cricket stars Rashid Khan and Mohammad Nabi have urged the Taliban to reconsider their ban on women’s access to medical education and training, terming the move “deeply unjust”. “Education holds a central place in Islamic teachings, emphasising the pursuit …

Afghanistan: Taliban bans women from training to become midwives and nurses
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2 weeks, 5 days ago

Afghanistan: Taliban bans women from training to become midwives and nurses

Op India  

Afghanistan’s only avenue for women pursuing higher education was essentially cut off when they were told not to return to school in the morning to complete their midwifery and nursing courses. The Taliban’s new order bans women from medical education, closing the last remaining institutions where women can learn. pic.twitter.com/C3SNsIC6OY — Habib Khan December 3, 2024 The shutdown, however, is …

'Afghanistan is a pot with no cover; anything can fall in it, anything can be taken'
1 month, 1 week ago

'Afghanistan is a pot with no cover; anything can fall in it, anything can be taken'

Firstpost  

In an exclusive interview with Firstpost, Afghan women’s rights activist Mahbouba Seraj gave her take on China, Russia and other foreign actors’ growing ties with the Taliban. Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday issued strong backing for Afghanistan at a regional conference, while making no mention of human rights abuses by the country’s Taliban leaders. In an exclusive conversation with …

'Afghanistan is facing gender-based apartheid, world must come together to address it'
1 month, 2 weeks ago

'Afghanistan is facing gender-based apartheid, world must come together to address it'

Firstpost  

In an exclusive conversation with Firstpost, Afghan human rights activist Mahbouba Seraj narrates how the Taliban’s new ban has taken the country by surprise On October 26, the women in Afghanistan faced another brunt from the Taliban regime after they were barred from technically “hearing each other”. The Taliban’s Minister of Vice and Virtue, Khalid Hanafi, issued a new ban …

Taliban further restricts women's voices with ban on praying aloud in front of other women
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Taliban further restricts women's voices with ban on praying aloud in front of other women

ABC  

The Taliban has extended restrictions on Afghan women's voices by banning them from praying loudly or reciting the Koran in front of other women. She noted that Afghan women defied the restrictions announced in August, using hashtags like #MyVoiceIsNotForbidden to protest the Taliban's description of a woman's voice as "awra", or a private part of the body. "Banning even women's …

Afghan women ‘banned from hearing each other’ in bizarre new Taliban rule
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Afghan women ‘banned from hearing each other’ in bizarre new Taliban rule

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Mohammad Khalid Hanafi, the Taliban minister for the propagation …

How Taliban Rule Has Reshaped Higher Education in Afghanistan
3 months ago

How Taliban Rule Has Reshaped Higher Education in Afghanistan

The Diplomat  

Three years ago, Roya was well on her way to her lifelong dream of a career in medicine. Three years of Taliban rule have made it clear that policies toward higher education are not just about separating men and women, but are about remaking Afghan society. While international media attention focused mostly on the banning of girls from secondary education, …

The Taliban’s repression of women in Afghanistan is outrageous, the UN rights chief says
3 months, 2 weeks ago

The Taliban’s repression of women in Afghanistan is outrageous, the UN rights chief says

Associated Press  

ISLAMABAD — The Taliban’s repressive control over women and girls in Afghanistan is unparalleled and will jeopardize the country’s future, the U.N. rights chief warned Monday. Volker Türk said new morality laws that ban women’s voices and bare faces in public, along with sweeping bans on education and most jobs, were outrageous and amounted to systematic gender persecution. The Taliban …

Afghanistan: A Nation Deprived, a Future Denied
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Afghanistan: A Nation Deprived, a Future Denied

The Diplomat  

Mahatma Gandhi famously said, “The measure of a civilization is how it treats its weakest members." This devastating policy has stripped nearly 1.4 million young Afghan girls of their right to education, leaving 75 percent of the nation's girls without schooling. Power in Afghanistan rests solely with the Taliban’s supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, whose strict stance on women's rights ensures …

How Taliban’s Draconian ‘Morality’ Law Targets Afghan Women, Who Are The Muhtasibs?
3 months, 2 weeks ago

How Taliban’s Draconian ‘Morality’ Law Targets Afghan Women, Who Are The Muhtasibs?

News 18  

How miserable are women in Afghanistan can be understood from the fact that the Taliban have passed a new “morality” law — ‘Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice’ — which imposes its interpretation of sharia or Islamic law on people and bans women from showing any part of their bodies or faces in public. Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada …

How will the morality law hit Afghan women?
3 months, 3 weeks ago

How will the morality law hit Afghan women?

The Hindu  

The story so far: The Taliban last week announced a new law on the “Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice” which imposes its interpretation of sharia or Islamic law on the people of Afghanistan. “They were portrayed as Taliban 2.0, as more moderate, so we engaged with them,” said Fawzia Koofi, a former woman lawmaker from Afghanistan, in an …

Taliban vice and virtue laws provide ‘distressing vision’ for Afghanistan, warns UN envoy
3 months, 4 weeks ago

Taliban vice and virtue laws provide ‘distressing vision’ for Afghanistan, warns UN envoy

Associated Press  

ISLAMABAD — The Taliban’s new vice and virtue laws that include a ban on women’s voices and bare faces in public provide a “distressing vision” for Afghanistan’s future, a top U.N. official warned Sunday. In remarks broadcast Sunday by state-controlled broadcaster RTA, Vice and Virtue Minister Mohammad Khaled Hanafi said nobody had the right to violate women’s rights based on …

Afghans are suffering. Don’t expect any tears from the Taliban
3 months, 4 weeks ago

Afghans are suffering. Don’t expect any tears from the Taliban

Live Mint  

THE STREETS of Kabul used to be riotously, almost headache-inducingly colourful. There were billboards advertising Western wear and Punjabi salwar kameez, murals promoting women’s and children’s rights, and everywhere the black-red-green tricolour of the Afghan Republic. Black-and-white also describes Western countries’ approach to Afghanistan since their humiliating exit from the country on August 15th 2021. Islamic State Khorasan Province, a …

Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai calls on Taliban to provide education to girls and women
4 months ago

Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai calls on Taliban to provide education to girls and women

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Former Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai …

The Taliban are celebrating 3 years in power, but they’re not talking about Afghans
4 months, 1 week ago

The Taliban are celebrating 3 years in power, but they’re not talking about Afghans

Associated Press  

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban celebrated the third anniversary of their return to power Wednesday at a former U.S. air base in Afghanistan, but there was no mention of the country’s hardships or promises to help the struggling population. Under blue skies and blazing sunshine at the Bagram base — once the center of America’s war to unseat the Taliban …

The Taliban have ruled Afghanistan for 3 years. Here are 5 things to know
4 months, 1 week ago

The Taliban have ruled Afghanistan for 3 years. Here are 5 things to know

Associated Press  

KABUL, Afghanistan — It’s been three years since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan. Despite no international recognition as the country’s official rulers, the Taliban enjoy high-level meetings with major regional powers like China and Russia. The Taliban’s legitimacy to govern doesn’t come from Afghans but from their interpretation of religion and culture, said Leena Rikkila Tamang with the International …

Taliban marks three years since return to power in Afghanistan
4 months, 1 week ago

Taliban marks three years since return to power in Afghanistan

India Today  

Taliban authorities were set to celebrate the third anniversary of their takeover of Afghanistan on Wednesday, with a military parade at a former US military base and festivities in key cities. Extra security was deployed in the capital Kabul and the Taliban's spiritual home of Kandahar ahead of the "day of victory", with Islamic State group attacks a continued threat …

First Afghan woman to compete internationally after Taliban takeover seeks Olympic gold in Paris
4 months, 2 weeks ago

First Afghan woman to compete internationally after Taliban takeover seeks Olympic gold in Paris

Associated Press  

PARIS — Zakia Khudadadi has spent most of her life breaking through glass ceilings. I want to show strength to all women and girls in Afghanistan.” Khudadadi is competing for the Refugee Paralympic Team, while other athletes are seeking medals under Afghanistan’s flag, such as Olympic sprinter Kimia Yousofi. The International Paralympic Committee originally issued a statement saying the Afghan …

3 Years on: The Afghan Women Relentlessly Resisting the Taliban
4 months, 2 weeks ago

3 Years on: The Afghan Women Relentlessly Resisting the Taliban

The Diplomat  

While we can and should mark the atrocities against women and girls under Taliban rule, we should also recognize and cheer their resistance. But while social media has increased Afghan women’s online participation, it has also left those who dare to speak out vulnerable to serious online abuse. The Centre for Information Resilience Afghan Witness project published an investigation revealing …

3 Years on: The Cost of Taliban Rule
4 months, 2 weeks ago

3 Years on: The Cost of Taliban Rule

The Diplomat  

August 15, 2024, marked three years since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan and took the Afghan people hostage. In 2018, when then-U.S. President Donald Trump appointed Zalmay Khalilzad as the special envoy for peace and reconciliation in Afghanistan, he enthusiastically pressed for negotiations with the Taliban to end the United States’ longest war. The Taliban’s illegitimate rule has had …

Afghan women's rights an internal issue, Taliban says before U.N.-led talks
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Afghan women's rights an internal issue, Taliban says before U.N.-led talks

The Hindu  

Taliban authorities said on June 29 that demands over women's rights were "Afghanistan's issues" to solve, ahead of United Nations-led engagement talks where the exclusion of Afghan women has sparked outcry. The Taliban government, which has imposed restrictions on women since seizing power in 2021 that the U.N. has described as "gender apartheid", will send its first delegation to the …

Taliban attends U.N.-led meeting on Afghanistan, with women excluded
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Taliban attends U.N.-led meeting on Afghanistan, with women excluded

LA Times  

Zabihullah Mujahid, center right, the chief spokesman for the Taliban government, speaks with Uzbekistan Presidential Envoy to Afghanistan Ismatullah Irgashev on Sunday in Doha, Qatar. A Taliban delegation on Sunday attended a United Nations-led meeting in Qatar on Afghanistan after organizers said women would be excluded from the gathering. The Taliban was not invited to the first meeting, and U.N. …

Afghan women's rights an internal issue, says Taliban government before UN-led talks
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Afghan women's rights an internal issue, says Taliban government before UN-led talks

India Today  

Taliban authorities said on Saturday that demands over women's rights were "Afghanistan's issues" to solve, ahead of United Nations-led engagement talks where the exclusion of Afghan women has sparked outcry. The Taliban government, which has imposed restrictions on women since seizing power in 2021 that the UN has described as "gender apartheid", will send its first delegation to the third …

Women's rights will be raised at UN meeting being attended by Taliban: UN official
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Women's rights will be raised at UN meeting being attended by Taliban: UN official

The Hindu  

The United Nations political chief who will chair the first meeting between Afghanistan's Taliban rulers and envoys from about 25 countries answered sharp criticism that Afghan women have been excluded, saying on June 26 that women's rights will be raised at every session. Undersecretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo stressed to a small group of reporters that the two-day meeting starting on Sunday …

The Taliban confirm they will attend a UN-led meeting in Qatar on Afghanistan
5 months, 4 weeks ago

The Taliban confirm they will attend a UN-led meeting in Qatar on Afghanistan

Associated Press  

ISLAMABAD — The Taliban on Tuesday confirmed their delegation will attend an upcoming U.N.-led meeting in Qatar on Afghanistan after the organizers said last week that women would be excluded from the gathering. The meeting on June 30 and July 1 is the third U.N.- The Taliban were not invited to the first and the U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said …

UN envoy defends failure to include Afghan women in upcoming meeting with Taliban in Qatar
6 months ago

UN envoy defends failure to include Afghan women in upcoming meeting with Taliban in Qatar

The Hindu  

The United Nations' top official in Afghanistan defended the failure to include Afghan women in the upcoming first meeting between the Taliban and envoys from 22 countries, insisting that demands for women's rights are certain to be raised. Human Rights Watch Executive Director Tirana Hassan said that, in the face of the Taliban's tightening repression of women and girls, the …

UN envoy defends failure to include Afghan women in upcoming meeting with the Taliban in Qatar
6 months ago

UN envoy defends failure to include Afghan women in upcoming meeting with the Taliban in Qatar

Associated Press  

UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations’ top official in Afghanistan defended the failure to include Afghan women in the upcoming first meeting between the Taliban and envoys from 22 countries, insisting that demands for women’s rights are certain to be raised. Human Rights Watch Executive Director Tirana Hassan said that, in the face of the Taliban’s tightening repression of women …

UN envoy defends failure to include Afghan women in upcoming meeting with the Taliban in Qatar
6 months ago

UN envoy defends failure to include Afghan women in upcoming meeting with the Taliban in Qatar

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Human Rights Watch Executive Director …

UN rapporteur calls for Taliban’s ‘gender apartheid’ to be codified as crime against humanity
6 months ago

UN rapporteur calls for Taliban’s ‘gender apartheid’ to be codified as crime against humanity

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Taliban should be held …

1,000 days have passed since the Taliban barred girls from secondary education, the UN says
6 months, 1 week ago

1,000 days have passed since the Taliban barred girls from secondary education, the UN says

Associated Press  

ISLAMABAD — A thousand days have passed since girls in Afghanistan were banned from attending secondary schools, according to the U.N. children’s agency, which said Thursday that “no country can move forward when half its population is left behind.” UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell in a statement urged Taliban authorities to allow all children to resume learning immediately, and called …

1,000 Days of Girls Banned From Education in Afghanistan
6 months, 1 week ago

1,000 Days of Girls Banned From Education in Afghanistan

The Diplomat  

An underground network of informal schools, run by brave volunteers, is the only access to continued education for girls past primary school. For over two and a half years, we women’s rights and education activists have been counting the days, and we desperately call on the Taliban to reopen the doors of secondary schools for female students. Furthermore, even before …

The Taliban publicly flogs 63 people including women accused of crimes. The UN condemns it
6 months, 2 weeks ago

The Taliban publicly flogs 63 people including women accused of crimes. The UN condemns it

Associated Press  

ISLAMABAD — The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan on Wednesday condemned the public flogging of more than 60 people, including more than a dozen women, by the Taliban in northern Sari Pul province. Taliban’s supreme court in a statement confirmed the public flogging of 63 people including 14 women who had been accused of crimes including sodomy, theft and …

New film captures Afghan women's courage in failed peace talks with Taliban
7 months, 3 weeks ago

New film captures Afghan women's courage in failed peace talks with Taliban

Hindustan Times  

By Jenna Zucker New film captures Afghan women's courage in failed peace talks with Taliban TORONTO, - The new documentary "The Sharp Edge of Peace" begins with a harrowing scene: Fawzia Koofi, a former member of Afghanistan’s parliament and a women's rights activist, recovering in a hospital bed after surviving an assassination attempt in August 2020. Directed by Roya Sadat, …

​Afghanistan in a state of gender apartheid as women's rights are being picked apart
8 months, 1 week ago

​Afghanistan in a state of gender apartheid as women's rights are being picked apart

Hindustan Times  

In March 2024 Hibatullah Akhundzada, the supreme leader of Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban, broadcast a message about resuming public stoning and flogging women to death as punishments for adultery-related crimes. It was reminiscent of the Taliban’s first stint in power in Kabul from 1996-2001, during which women and girls were barred from education, employment and going out in public without a …

Reclusive Taliban leader releases Eid message urging officials to set aside their differences
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Reclusive Taliban leader releases Eid message urging officials to set aside their differences

Associated Press  

ISLAMABAD — The Taliban’s reclusive supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada urged his officials to set aside their differences and serve Afghanistan properly, according to a written statement released Saturday ahead of the Eid al-Fitr holiday marking the end of Ramadan. Akhundzada said Taliban officials should “live a brotherly life among themselves, avoid disagreements and selfishness.” He said the war against the …

Taliban ban on girls’ education defies both worldly and religious logic
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Taliban ban on girls’ education defies both worldly and religious logic

Al Jazeera  

Spring has arrived in Afghanistan, and Afghan children have returned to their schools to begin a new academic year. On March 21, 2022, the Taliban promised to reopen all schools in Afghanistan, seemingly ending the temporary ban it had placed on girls attending secondary school since its return to power seven months earlier.Two days later, while many girls were enthusiastically …

Afghanistan’s school year starts without more than 1 million girls barred from education by Taliban
9 months ago

Afghanistan’s school year starts without more than 1 million girls barred from education by Taliban

Associated Press  

ISLAMABAD — The school year in Afghanistan started Wednesday but without girls whom the Taliban barred from attending classes beyond the sixth grade, making it the only country with restrictions on female education. The invitations sent out to reporters said: “Due to the lack of a suitable place for the sisters, we apologize to female reporters.” During a ceremony, the …

As Afghanistan’s school year starts, more than 1 million girls still barred from education by Taliban
9 months ago

As Afghanistan’s school year starts, more than 1 million girls still barred from education by Taliban

LA Times  

A girl reads a book in her classroom in Kabul in 2023. The school year in Afghanistan started Wednesday but without girls whom the Taliban barred from attending classes beyond the sixth grade, making it the only country with restrictions on female education. The invitations sent out to reporters said: “Due to the lack of a suitable place for the …

Afghan women stage rare protests, braving Taliban reprisals
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Afghan women stage rare protests, braving Taliban reprisals

Al Jazeera  

Small groups of Afghan women have gathered in private spaces to demand that harsh restrictions on their freedoms be lifted, despite recent Taliban crackdowns on protests that have seen activists detained. On Friday, Richard Bennett, the United Nations special rapporteur for human rights in Afghanistan, called on the Taliban government “to immediately and unconditionally release all those who have been …

Taliban is enforcing restrictions on single and unaccompanied Afghan women, UN says
11 months ago

Taliban is enforcing restrictions on single and unaccompanied Afghan women, UN says

Associated Press  

ISLAMABAD — The Taliban are restricting Afghan women’s access to work, travel and health care if they are unmarried or don’t have a male guardian, according to a U.N report published Monday. The U.N. spokesman, asked for Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ reaction to the latest bans, replied: “Horror!” Stephane Dujarric added: “It must be unimaginable to have to live through it.” …

Afghanistan: Human Rights Watch accuses Taliban of intensifying freedom curbs
11 months, 1 week ago

Afghanistan: Human Rights Watch accuses Taliban of intensifying freedom curbs

Firstpost  

According to a recent study by Human Rights Watch, the Taliban has increased their efforts to repress human rights in Afghanistan, particularly those of women. Human Rights Watch highlighted the need for humanitarian aid in Afghanistan, stating that the country’s almost two-thirds of the population are in need of it because of the country’s economic struggles. Human Rights Watch has …

UN concerned over Taliban arrests of Afghan women and girls for alleged Islamic headscarf violations
11 months, 1 week ago

UN concerned over Taliban arrests of Afghan women and girls for alleged Islamic headscarf violations

Associated Press  

KABUL, Afghanistan — The United Nations mission in Afghanistan said Thursday it was deeply concerned by recent arbitrary arrests and detentions by the Taliban government of women and girls for allegedly violating dress codes regarding the Islamic headscarf, or hijab. The Taliban said last week that female police officers have been taking women into custody for wearing “bad hijab.” It …

Taliban arrests women for wearing 'bad hijab', says they violate Islamic values
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Taliban arrests women for wearing 'bad hijab', says they violate Islamic values

Op India  

The Taliban arrested women in Kabul for wearing “bad hijab” as part of their efforts to reinforce Afghanistan’s severe female dress code regulations, a spokesman at the country’s vice and virtue ministry said on Thursday, January 4. Taliban arrest women for 'bad hijab' in the first dress code crackdown since their return to power https://t.co/ttfn7mLHz2 — CTV News January 4, …

Taliban arrest women for ‘bad hijab’ in the first dress code crackdown since their return to power
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Taliban arrest women for ‘bad hijab’ in the first dress code crackdown since their return to power

Associated Press  

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban have arrested women in the Afghan capital for wearing “bad hijab,” a spokesman at the country’s Vice and Virtue Ministry said Thursday. It’s the first official confirmation of a crackdown on women who don’t follow the dress code imposed by the Taliban since they returned to power in 2021 and has echoes with neighboring Iran, …

Afghan schoolgirls are finishing sixth grade in tears. Under Taliban rule, their education is over
11 months, 4 weeks ago

Afghan schoolgirls are finishing sixth grade in tears. Under Taliban rule, their education is over

Associated Press  

KABUL, Afghanistan — Bahara Rustam, 13, took her last class at Bibi Razia School in Kabul on Dec. 11 knowing it was the end of her education. In September 2021, a month after U.S. and NATO troops withdrew from Afghanistan following two decades of war, the Taliban announced that girls were barred from studying beyond sixth grade. Last week, U.N. …

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