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Taliban Seizes Afghan Professor For Giving Out Free Books To Women And Girls

7th February, 2023 · admin · Leave a comment

By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi: A man who wheeled books around Kabul and gave them out for free in response to a Taliban ban on higher education for girls and women was arrested on February 2. The day before, RFE/RL interviewed him as he made his rounds through the Afghan capital.

Posted in Afghan Women, Crime and Punishment, Education, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule |
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Time for Elon Musk’s Starlink to Save Afghanistan’s Women

31st January, 2023 · admin

Khaama: Mark R. Whittington, a renowned space exploration author, has discussed Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite that how best can help Afghan women who are banned from education by the Taliban, the Hill reported. The Starlink system can offer access to high-speed Internet in remote areas without installing cables or constructing a significant amount of new

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Posted in Afghan Women, Education, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations |
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Central Asian Universities Enrolling Afghan Women Amid Taliban College Ban

31st January, 2023 · admin

By Farangis Najibullah Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 30, 2023 With the Taliban government banning women from attending universities in Afghanistan, an EU-funded project is being revived to bring dozens of Afghan girls to study in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. More than 100 Afghan girls who were awarded five-year scholarships are already in the host countries

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Posted in Afghan Women, Central Asia, Education, Uzbekistan-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Afghanistan-Kazakhstan |
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Sunday Marks 500 Days Afghan Girls Kept From School

29th January, 2023 · admin

Tolo News: Female students in grade 6-12 still face an uncertain future as Sunday marks 500 days that schools have been closed for girls in those grades. The students said the closed schools have faced them with psychological problems and mental pressure. Click here to read more (external link). Related Girls React to Ban on

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Posted in Afghan Children, Afghan Women, Education, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Taliban war on women |
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Ban on University Education Contradicts Islamic Teachings, Says Iranian FM

24th January, 2023 · admin

8am: Iranian Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said that the ban imposed by the Taliban on university education for women contradicts Islamic teachings. The Foreign Affairs Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran expressed this issue on Tuesday, at the meeting of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) Council of foreign ministers. Click here to read more

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Posted in Afghan Women, Education, Iran-Afghanistan Relations, Muslims and Islam | Tags: Taliban War on Muslims, Taliban war on women |
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Q&A: Malala Yousafzai Says World Should Stand by Afghan Women

24th January, 2023 · admin

Nazrana Ghaffar Yousufzai VOA News January 23, 2023 WASHINGTON — Malala Yousafzai says that the world should come together to support the fundamental rights of Afghan women. The Nobel Peace Prize Laureate said in an interview with VOA that the people of Afghanistan, Muslim countries and the international community should stand with Afghan women in their

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Posted in Afghan Women, Education, Interviews | Tags: Malala Yousafzai |
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Afghanistan professor on girls’ education: ‘Men must stand up for women’

23rd January, 2023 · admin

BBC News: “I call on fathers to take the hands of their daughters and walk them to school, even if the gates are shut.” Professor Ismail Mashal, who runs a private university in Kabul, says he has had enough of the restrictions women face in Afghanistan. Slender and well dressed, he is a mixture of

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Posted in Afghan Children, Afghan Women, Education, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Taliban war on women |
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Despite Taliban Ban, Secret Schools Educate Afghan Girls

22nd January, 2023 · admin

Sarah Zaman VOA News January 22, 2023 WASHINGTON — Every morning, in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Kabul, Afghanistan, girls secretly gather in a house to study, something that millions of girls around the world do freely. As the global community marks International Day of Education on Tuesday, Afghanistan is the only country where girls

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Posted in Afghan Children, Afghan Women, Education, Everyday Life, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule |
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Erdogan calls Taliban ban on women’s education ‘un-Islamic’

12th January, 2023 · admin

Middle East Eye: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has denounced the Taliban’s order to ban university and primary education for Afghanistan’s women as “unIslamic”, promising to follow the issue until it is resolved in a televised speech on Wednesday.  “It is inhumane and un-Islamic,” Erdogan said while addressing an international conference on ombudsmanship in Ankara.

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Posted in Afghan Women, Education, Muslims and Islam, Taliban, Turkey-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Taliban war on women |
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Afghan Educator Who Tore Up His Degrees Vows To Fight Taliban Ban On Women

31st December, 2022 · admin

AFP: Ismail Mashal, a lecturer in journalism for more than a decade at three universities in Kabul, shred his qualifications and resigned from the institutions after the ban was issued this month. “I’m raising my voice. I’m standing with my sisters…. My protest will continue even if it costs my life,” Mashal, 35, told AFP

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Posted in Afghan Women, Economic News, Education, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Taliban war on women |
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