Taliban rules: Afghan woman abandons doctoring for pickle-making
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Taliban rules: Afghan woman abandons doctoring for pickle-making

Hindustan Times  

Frozan Ahmadzai is one of 200,000 Afghan women who have the Taliban's permission to work. Just obtaining permission from the Taliban to work is challenging for women, though under Afghan labour laws, the process for work permits ought to be the same for both sexes. Women's participation in the workforce in Afghanistan, always limited by conservative cultural beliefs, was 14.8% in 2021, before the Taliban seized power and imposed harsh restrictions on women and girls. They have tried to provide women with a “safe, secure and separate” working environment in line with Islamic values and Afghan traditions in sectors where women's work is needed, according to ministry spokesman Ebrahimi.

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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 …

Afghan cricketers condemn Taliban's ban on women's medical studies
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2 weeks, 5 days ago

Afghan cricketers condemn Taliban's ban on women's medical studies

India Today  

Rashid Khan and Mohammad Nabi, two prominent figures in Afghan cricket, have condemned the Taliban's closure of educational institutions for women training as nurses and midwives. The Taliban's leadership has directed private and public institutions to stop providing medical courses for women in Afghanistan, effectively eliminating their access to education in medicine — the last field that had remained open …

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 …

An Afghan woman wanted to be a doctor. Now she makes pickles as the Taliban restricts women’s roles
5 months, 2 weeks ago

An Afghan woman wanted to be a doctor. Now she makes pickles as the Taliban restricts women’s roles

LA Times  

An Afghan tailor works with a sewing machine in the Afghan Women Business Hub in Kabul. Frozan Ahmadzai is one of 200,000 Afghan women who have the Taliban’s permission to work. Women’s participation in the workforce in Afghanistan, always limited by conservative cultural beliefs, was 14.8% in 2021, before the Taliban seized power and imposed harsh restrictions on women and …

An Afghan woman wanted to be a doctor. Now she makes pickles as the Taliban restricts women’s roles
5 months, 2 weeks ago

An Afghan woman wanted to be a doctor. Now she makes pickles as the Taliban restricts women’s roles

Associated Press  

KABUL, Afghanistan — Frozan Ahmadzai is one of 200,000 Afghan women who have the Taliban’s permission to work. Women’s participation in the workforce in Afghanistan, always limited by conservative cultural beliefs, was 14.8% in 2021, before the Taliban seized power and imposed harsh restrictions on women and girls. It’s to “speed things up and make things easier” for women, said …

On UN Afghan women report, Taliban's clarification. Then, vehement rejection
2 years, 3 months ago

On UN Afghan women report, Taliban's clarification. Then, vehement rejection

Hindustan Times  

Taliban authorities on Tuesday condemned UN accusations that they are violating the rights of women to work in Afghanistan, insisting thousands are employed in the country's public sector. "Working together in one office is not possible in our Islamic system," he said, a day after a United Nations rights expert said there had been a "staggering regression" in women's rights …

Why the Taliban’s war on women is gravest women’s rights crisis in world
2 years, 3 months ago

Why the Taliban’s war on women is gravest women’s rights crisis in world

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. Experts came together for a highly emotional event hosted …

How is life for Afghan women under Taliban rule?
2 years, 9 months ago

How is life for Afghan women under Taliban rule?

Al Jazeera  

On Tuesday, March 22 at 19:30 GMT: Women’s rights have eroded in Afghanistan in the seven months since the Taliban took power, despite promises by the leadership to uphold them. In a tweet published on March 8 – International Women’s Day – the Taliban vowed to defend women’s rights under Sharia, saying, “We protect and defend the rights of our …

A brief history of Afghan women's rights
2 years, 10 months ago

A brief history of Afghan women's rights

The Hindu  

"I was working for the Defense Ministry. "Why would anyone do that," Ghafari asks rhetorically, explaining that many women simply have no choice: As single mothers and the sole bread-earners of the family, they have been particularly affected by the Taliban's ban on work for women. The regime has also banned women from showing their faces on all kinds of …

Afghan women face hardship as Taliban struggles to revive economy
2 years, 11 months ago

Afghan women face hardship as Taliban struggles to revive economy

Al Jazeera  

Several Afghan women Al Jazeera spoke to say they have struggled to put food on the table as Taliban fails to revive the economy. According to independent Afghan analyst Ahmed-Waleed Kakar, “the main challenges for women are those reflected across the country at large – the financial and economic,” he told Al Jazeera. “Teachers comprised the largest bulk of women’s …

What Western feminists can do to support Afghan women living under the Taliban
3 years, 2 months ago

What Western feminists can do to support Afghan women living under the Taliban

Salon  

Since the Taliban took control of Kabul and the central government on Aug. 15, efforts to support Afghan women have become extremely challenging. Adding fuel to the fire, the World Bank suspended financing to the Afghan health care system through its Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund. Prior to the U.S. military withdrawal, the World Bank funded the Sehatmandi project — a …

Taliban rule means lack of proper healthcare for women, pregnant women suffer the most
3 years, 3 months ago

Taliban rule means lack of proper healthcare for women, pregnant women suffer the most

Op India  

The situation in Afghanistan since the Taliban took over is getting worse with time. It is getting difficult for female patients, especially pregnant women, to get medical attention on time. A midwife was quoted by BBC saying, “If a female doctor cannot see a woman, the male doctor can only see the patient where two or more other people are …

Taliban tells female Kabul government workers not go to work as a deadly blast rocks Jalalabad
3 years, 3 months ago

Taliban tells female Kabul government workers not go to work as a deadly blast rocks Jalalabad

ABC  

Female employees in the Kabul city government have been told to stay home, with work only allowed for those who cannot be replaced by men, as the Taliban detail the latest restrictions on women. Key points: The Taliban ordered Kabul's female government workers to stay home unless there was no male to replace them Women held a protest outside the …

Afghan women should not be allowed to work alongside men, senior Taliban figure says
3 years, 3 months ago

Afghan women should not be allowed to work alongside men, senior Taliban figure says

Deccan Chronicle  

Afghan women should not be allowed to work alongside men, a senior figure in the ruling Taliban said, a position which, if formally implemented, would effectively bar them from employment in government offices, banks, media companies and beyond. Since the movement swept to power last month, Taliban officials have said women would be able to work and study within the …

Women can't be minister, they should give birth: Taliban on no female in new Afghanistan govt
3 years, 3 months ago

Women can't be minister, they should give birth: Taliban on no female in new Afghanistan govt

India TV News  

The Taliban have defended their decision not to include women in the new Afghanistan government. The terror outfit that returned to power after a 20-year hiatus has now said that "women can't be ministers, they should give birth". It is not necessary for women to be in the cabinet - they should give birth," Taliban spokesperson Sayed Zekrullah Hashimi told …

Women should sit at home, we'll pay them: Taliban leader Stanikzai's 1996 interview a grim throwback
3 years, 3 months ago

Women should sit at home, we'll pay them: Taliban leader Stanikzai's 1996 interview a grim throwback

India Today  

Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, who is the head of the Taliban political office, had said in an interview during the previous Taliban regime that the women will have to sit at home and they will be paid accordingly. A video from a CNN interview in 1996 was shared by a journalist who remembered how Stanikzai made the same promises of …

Taliban ask women doctors, health workers to resume jobs in Afghanistan
3 years, 3 months ago

Taliban ask women doctors, health workers to resume jobs in Afghanistan

India Today  

As health crisis worsens in Afghanistan, the Taliban have reportedly urged female employees in all hospitals and provinces across Afghanistan to resume jobs. “All female employees of the Ministry of Public Health both in provinces and the Capital are informed to resume their jobs on regular manner. "It's a very temporary procedure," Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said while asking working …

‘I prefer to die than to go with them’: Afghan women dread Taliban rule
3 years, 4 months ago

‘I prefer to die than to go with them’: Afghan women dread Taliban rule

LA Times  

Tamana Bahar was a toddler when the Taliban first ruled Afghanistan. “The only hope I have is you.” Taliban officials who appeared Tuesday on state television and at a briefing in Kabul said women’s rights would be respected within the boundaries of sharia, or Islamic law. I am deeply worried about women, minorities and human rights advocates,” Yousafzai wrote on …

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