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Compulsory Burqa, Taliban Suppressed Protesting Students in Badakhshan

31st October, 2022 · admin

8am: The Taliban have increased the pressure on female students at Badakhshan University for some time now. The officials of the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice department for the Badakhshan province have made it mandatory for female students to wear a burqa, and do not allow girls who do

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Posted in Afghan Women, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Badakhshan, Burqa, Life under Taliban rule |
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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

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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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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