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Taliban’s Virtue and Vice Ministry reject claims of ordering gender segregation in restaurants

15th May, 2022 · admin · Leave a comment

Ariana: The Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has rejected claims that orders were given to restaurants in Herat to separate male and female patrons.  This comes after reports emerged recently that officials from the provincial department of promotion of virtue and prevention of vice visited restaurants and instructed owners to separate

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This is life in Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover

13th May, 2022 · admin · Leave a comment

The Week: It’s been a chaotic nine months since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan — the economy is in a free fall; methamphetamine production has exploded; the United Nations estimates that half of the country’s population is suffering from acute hunger; the rights of women are being eroded; and there’s been an increase in

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Posted in Afghan Children, Afghan Women, Economic News, Human Rights, ISIS/DAESH, Taliban | Tags: Crystal Meth in Afghanistan, Poverty, Taliban government failure, Taliban Security Failure |
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G7 Decries Taliban’s Burqa Order For Afghan Women, Warns Hard-Line Group Is Further Isolating Itself

12th May, 2022 · admin · Leave a comment

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 12, 2022 Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) have expressed their “strongest opposition” and “deplored” the Taliban-led government in Kabul’s recent decree telling women to wear the head-to-toe burqa in public and other “increasing restrictions,” saying the hard-line group in control of Afghanistan since August is “further isolating”

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Posted in Afghan Women, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Burqa, Life under Taliban rule |
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Afghan Women Protest New Burqa Decree Despite Taliban Threats

10th May, 2022 · admin

By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi May 10, 2022 KABUL — Around a dozen women’s rights activists have protested a Taliban order making it mandatory for women to wear the all-covering burqa, including face veils, when they are in public. The women marched through the streets of the capital, Kabul, on May 10 holding signs calling for justice despite intimidation

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Posted in Afghan Women, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Burqa, Life under Taliban rule |
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Protests Against Compulsory Hijab: Protestors Call It Humiliation and Insult to Women’s Dignity

9th May, 2022 · admin

8am: Burqa is neither an Islamic hijab nor part of Afghanistan’s culture. It is a tribal tradition that is forcefully imposed on women in remote areas, particularly in Pashtun-dominated society only. Following the reactions to the Taliban’s compulsory hijab, the Women’s Movement for Justice and Freedom has said that the Taliban have insulted all Muslim

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Posted in Afghan Women, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Burqa, Life under Taliban rule, Malala Yousafzai, Protest |
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Exposed: The Taliban is jailing and tasering Afghan women – just for taking a taxi without a man or appearing in photos with male classmates

8th May, 2022 · admin

Daily Mail (UK): Afghan women are being jailed by the Taliban for ‘immoral behaviour’ – including travelling in a taxi without a male relative  An undercover camera crew inside Herat’s central jail found all the women interviewed had been incarcerated for minor infringements  Maryam, an Afghan woman in Herat’s jail said: ‘If the government remains

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Posted in Afghan Women, Crime and Punishment, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Misogyny |
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Afghanistan’s Taliban Orders Women To Wear Burqa Coverings In Public

7th May, 2022 · admin

By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi May 7, 2022 Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities have ordered all women to cover their faces, the latest in a series of restrictions that have drawn criticism from many Afghans and the international community. The decree, announced at a news conference in the capital, Kabul, on May 7, calls for women to only show

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Posted in Afghan Women, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Burqa |
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Afghanistan Poverty Bears More Child Brides

4th May, 2022 · admin

Akmal Dawi VOA News May 4, 2022 For several months Pashtana kept rejecting marriage proposals made for her 14-year-old daughter, Zarghona, until she had to make a final decision. “I had to choose between the survival of my four little children and giving Zarghona to marriage,” Pashtana told VOA over the phone from the southern

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Posted in Afghan Children, Afghan Women, Economic News, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: child marriage, Life under Taliban rule, Taliban government failure |
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A letter to … the Taliban men who drove me from my home

4th May, 2022 · admin

Al Jazeera: We were all watching you. To see what your plan was. What is the plan for our jobs, our economy? And what about women? And Afghan journalists? Afghans have been let down by so many, and so many times. We were let down by America and also by you. Because now we all

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Posted in Afghan Women, Human Rights, Refugees and Migrants, Taliban | Tags: Escape from the Taliban |
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Afghan Girls Banned From School Suffer Psychologically: Experts

3rd May, 2022 · admin

Tolo News: Female students above grade six say the closing of their schools is causing them mental health trouble.  The students said they are counting the seconds until school will be reopened.  Saeeda, a student in grade 10, said she dreams of being a doctor in the future. Saeeda said she is afraid to not

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Posted in Afghan Children, Afghan Women, Education, Health News, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Mental Health |
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