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‘They beat girls just for smiling’: life in Afghanistan one year after the Taliban’s return

7th August, 2022 · admin

The Guardian (UK): Despite their promises of peace and stability, the country is on its knees, and its people are desperate  “The Taliban are representing the Taliban, not Afghanistan. Half of the population has not been represented in government at all in the past nine months,” said the Afghan analyst. As in 2001, whole ethnic,

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Posted in Afghan Women, Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Economic News, Education, Ethnic Issues, Human Rights, Society, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Pashtun dominated Taliban government |
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27 Suicides in 11 Provinces in Past 2 Months

20th July, 2022 · admin

Tolo News: TOLO news findings show that in the past two months, 27 people have committed suicide in eleven provinces of Afghanistan. According to the findings, the number of girls who committed suicide is more compared to boys. Poverty, economic challenges and family violence are said to be the main reasons for the surge in

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Posted in Everyday Life, Health News, Society | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Mental Health, Suicide |
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In Afghanistan, women take their lives out of desperation, Human Rights Council hears

2nd July, 2022 · admin

UN: The situation for women is so desperate in Afghanistan that they are committing suicide at a rate of one or two every day, the Human Rights Council has heard. Addressing the Council, Fawzia Koofi, former deputy speaker of the Afghan Parliament, said lack of opportunity and ailing mental health, was taking a terrible toll:

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Posted in Afghan Women, Human Rights, Society, Taliban, UN-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Fawzia Koofi, Life under Taliban rule, Suicide |
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Afghanistan leads world in negative experiences

28th June, 2022 · admin

Ariana: Gallup said Afghans’ lives were already in a tailspin before the [Taliban] Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) returned to power in 2021. Most Afghans were struggling to afford food and shelter, few felt safe, and they saw their lives getting worse with every passing year, it said. Gallup surveys conducted in August and September

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Posted in Economic News, Everyday Life, Society, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule |
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Taliban Bans Listening to Music at Kabul University Dormitory

26th June, 2022 · admin

8am: The Taliban have ordered all the students that music is forbidden, adding that the students are not allowed to listen to music neither in the dormitory rooms nor in the dining hall. In the meantime, most students at Kabul University dormitory have raised concerns and consider the new order as turning the university into

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Posted in Everyday Life, Society, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Taliban ban music |
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Taliban Fighters Storm a Wedding Party in Badakhshan, Saying “Women Were Not Wearing Hijab”

15th June, 2022 · admin

8am: Sources on Wednesday (June 15th) said that a wedding party was being held in the new city of Faizabad, which was stormed by the Taliban’s virtue promoters. Taliban forces have forcefully prevented the wedding from taking place. According to sources, the Taliban claimed that the women attending the wedding party did not wear the

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Posted in Afghan Women, Society, Taliban | Tags: Badakhshan, Life under Taliban rule, Taliban ban music |
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Taliban Forces Search Shops in Herat to Identify Women Who Appear in Public Without Male Companions

14th June, 2022 · admin

8am: The Taliban on Tuesday (June 14th) reprimanded those women who were shopping without having their mahrams – male companions – after entering a market in Herat. Local sources told Hasht-e Subh that the Taliban had ordered shopkeepers that no women were allowed to enter the market without a mahram to prevent sin and prostitution,

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Posted in Afghan Women, Human Rights, Society, Taliban | Tags: Herat, Life under Taliban rule |
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In Kabul, cemeteries a part of Afghan daily life

31st May, 2022 · admin

AP: There are cemeteries all over Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, many of them filled with the dead from the country’s decades of war. They are incorporated casually into Afghans’ lives. They provide open spaces where children play soccer or cricket or fly kites, where adults hang out, smoking, talking and joking, since there are few public

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Posted in Everyday Life, Photos, Society |
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UN Observer Says Taliban Policies Making Afghan Women Invisible

26th May, 2022 · admin

Ayaz Gul VOA News May 26, 2022 ISLAMABAD — A senior United Nations observer Thursday expressed serious concern about the “erasure of women from public life” across Afghanistan since the Islamist Taliban seized power in August. “Afghanistan is facing a plethora of critical human rights challenges that are having a severe impact on the population,” Richard

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Posted in Afghan Women, Human Rights, Society, Taliban | Tags: Domestic Violence, Misogyny |
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Taliban Say No Christians Live in Afghanistan; US Groups Concerned

17th May, 2022 · admin

VOA News May 16, 2022 Husain Andaryas was a religious fighter in the war against the invading Soviet army in Afghanistan in the early 1980s, but almost a year after the Soviets left, he converted to Christianity. For the next nine years, Andaryas wandered in several regional countries, suffered torture, and was finally offered a

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Posted in Human Rights, Society, Taliban | Tags: Christians in Afghanistan, Life under Taliban rule, Religious minorities in Afghanistan |
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