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UN Official Says Afghan Taliban Has Stripped Women’s Rights

18th June, 2022 · admin

Lisa Schlein VOA News June 18, 2022 GENEVA — U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet this week accused Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban of stripping women and girls of their fundamental rights and freedoms and rendering them invisible in public life. Her report was submitted Wednesday to the U.N. Human Rights Council. Bachelet told the council

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Posted in Afghan Women, Human Rights, Taliban, UN-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Life under Taliban rule |
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Balkhab Siege: Civilians to Be Used As Cannon Fodders if the Battle Breaks Out

18th June, 2022 · admin

8am: After seizing power in August 2021, the Taliban has slowly and steadily begun to purge non-Pashtun commanders off its ranks. So far, several Uzbek and Tajik commanders of the group have been ousted from the government in control of the Taliban. Among the Taliban commanders ousted by the group is Mawlawi Mehdi Mujahid. Mahdi

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Posted in Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Ethnic Issues, Security, Taliban | Tags: Ethnic descrimination, Hazaras, Life under Taliban rule, Pashtun Taliban, Pashtunization, Pashtuns, Tajiks, Taliban infighting, Uzbeks |
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Afghan Bodybuilders Fear Taliban Restrictions Could Kill Their Popular Sport

17th June, 2022 · admin

By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi Abubakar Siddique June 17, 2022 Mohammad has been sweating it out at the gym almost daily for the past four years in the hope of becoming a bodybuilder. But since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, his dream has faded. Even though the militant group has allowed the sport, it has ordered

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Posted in Afghan Sports News, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Bodybuilding, Life under Taliban rule |
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“Woman Without a Head-to-Toe Cover Resembles an Animal,” Say Taliban’s Virtue Promoters in Kandahar

17th June, 2022 · admin

8am: The Taliban’s Administration for Promoting Virtue has installed advertising posters in most parts of Kandahar depicting women without a ‘head-to-toe cover’ as animals. The posters read: “A Muslim woman who does not wear the Islamic hijab pretends to be an animal.” Earlier, the Taliban leadership had ordered women to cover their bodies and faces

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Posted in Afghan Women, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Kandahar, Life under Taliban rule |
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One Certainty For Afghans: The Taliban And Taxes

16th June, 2022 · admin

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty June 16, 2022 Afghans are struggling to make ends meet amid an economic crisis that has disrupted basic services, left them with rising costs and dim employment prospects, and battered the health and financial sectors. But the country’s Taliban leaders, limited to domestic revenue to fund its first annual budget, have

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Posted in Economic News, Taliban | Tags: Coal Mining in Afghanistan, Life under Taliban rule, Taliban looting resources, Taxes |
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Taliban Launches House-to-House Searches in Herat, Asking Money and Weapons from Former Regime Members

16th June, 2022 · admin

8am: Sources in Herat province told Hasht-e Subh on Wednesday (June 15th) that the Taliban had demanded money and weapons from former government members during house-to-house searches. Sources emphasize that the Taliban are using this trick to seize the houses and property of former government members. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Herat, Life under Taliban rule, Taliban looters |
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In Afghanistan, Taliban White Flags Must In Shops, Health Clinics

16th June, 2022 · admin

ANI: Taliban forces in Afghanistan’s Kandahar city have compelled the shopkeepers to install their group’s white flag in their shops and buildings. Health clinics and public baths have too been asked to follow the order. The order has been issued by the Taliban officials in PD9 of Kandahar Municipality in a letter to shopkeepers and

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Posted in Everyday Life, Taliban | Tags: Kandahar, Life under Taliban rule |
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Former UK embassy workers in Afghanistan ‘beaten and tortured by Taliban’

16th June, 2022 · admin

The Independent (UK): ‘I feel like the British have been disloyal’ –  Over 100 men who worked with the British embassy continue to remain in Afghanistan and some of them have alleged torture at the hands of the Taliban. The men worked for a global security company named GardaWorld, according to a BBC Newsnight investigation

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Posted in Britain-Afghanistan Relations, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Betrayal of Afghan people, Life under Taliban rule, Taliban torture |
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“Women Have No Right to Sue Men”, Says Taliban in Herat

16th June, 2022 · admin

8am: The Taliban have recently issued an order in Herat province, saying women do not have the right to sue men. Sources in Herat province told Hasht-e Subh that Taliban judges did not hear women’s complaints against their husbands. According to sources, dozens of women had filed lawsuits for domestic violence against their husbands in

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Posted in Afghan Women, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Domestic Violence, Herat, Life under Taliban rule, Misogyny |
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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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