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3 months, 3 weeks ago

How will the morality law hit Afghan women?

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 …

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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, …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Taliban enforces order for Afghan women TV anchors to cover faces

Al Jazeera

Most female presenters were seen with their faces covered while on air on Sunday. Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have started to enforce a new order requiring all female TV news anchors in the country to cover their faces while on air. “Every Islamic scholar and political figure has opposed this decree.” The Taliban has said female presenters could wear medical masks …

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3 years, 2 months ago

'Don't Let Taliban In': Afghanistan Women Urge United Nations Not To Give Seat To New Regime

ABP News

New Delhi: Urging the United Nations to block the Taliban from gaining a seat at the world body, a group of Afghan women have called for better representation for their country. The Afghan women put forth their views during a visit to the United Nations headquarters in New York earlier on Thursday. India Among Countries Developing Tech: Congressional Report Asserting …

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3 years, 2 months ago

From exile, female former Afghan leader keeps fighting

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Two months after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, one of the country’s once-prominent female leaders — a former parliament member, candidate for president and a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize — is visiting the United Nations, not as a representative of her government but as a woman in exile. Women should not be only the …

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3 years, 3 months ago

About the only job women can do for the Kabul government is clean female bathrooms, acting mayor says

CNN

CNN — Female employees in the Kabul city government have been told to stay home, and only women whose jobs cannot be done by men are allowed to come to work – the latest restrictions imposed by the Taliban in Afghanistan. The order, announced by Kabul’s acting Mayor Hamdullah Nohmani on Sunday, effectively means women are now barred from government …

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3 years, 3 months ago

No country for women: Taliban's all-male cabinet stirs fear of a 'dark future'

Firstpost

Women in the country allege they have been relegated to their houses and that the progress they had made has already been overturned “The Taliban respects women’s rights. Pramila Patten, the acting head of UN Women, said, “Following today’s news of the exclusion of women in the new Government announced by the Taliban, I join with many around the world …

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3 years, 4 months ago

America has abandoned the women of Afghanistan (opinion)

CNN

Editor’s Note: Jill Filipovic is a journalist based in New York and author of the book “OK Boomer, Let’s Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind.” Follow her on Twitter. Afghan women have been used as political pawns and treated more as symbols than humans by powerful people on all sides of the conflict – too many of them American …

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3 years, 8 months ago

Concerns mount that US withdrawal from Afghanistan could risk progress on women’s rights

CNN

CNN — Concerns are mounting from bipartisan US lawmakers and Afghan women’s rights activists that the hard-won gains for women and civil society in Afghanistan could be lost if the United States makes a precipitous withdrawal from the country. Progress ‘could evaporate’ Gailani told those at the virtual discussion that an American troop withdrawal from the country must be “extremely …

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4 years, 2 months ago

Who are the Afghan women negotiating peace with the Taliban?

Al Jazeera

They have risked their lives to educate girls and survived assassination attempts. From surviving assassination attempts to risking their lives running underground schools during the Taliban’s rule, Habiba Sarabi, Fatima Gailani, Sharifa Zurmati Wardak and Fawzia Koofi have endured it all. The second reason was that I wanted to challenge my father and prove to be better than his sons.” …

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4 years, 4 months ago

Woman member of Afghanistan's peace team survives attack by gunmen near Kabul

Firstpost

Fawzia Koofi, who is part of a 21-member team which will represent the Afghan govt in upcoming peace talks with the Taliban, is in good health, said the team’s head. Kabul: A female member of Afghanistan’s peace negotiating team and a former parliamentarian survived an assassination attempt, Afghan officials said Saturday. Koofi is part of a 21 member team charged …

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4 years, 4 months ago

Afghan women's rights trailblazer survives gun attack

India Today

Trailblazing Afghan women's rights campaigner Fawzia Koofi, a member of the Afghan negotiating team that will hold talks with the Taliban, has been wounded in a gun attack near Kabul, officials said Saturday. Gunmen opened fire on Koofi, 45, and her sister on Friday when they were returning from a meeting in the province of Parwan near the capital, interior …

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