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Afghanistan’s Taliban Rulers Order NGOs To Prevent Women From Working At Their Jobs As Protests Spread

24th December, 2022 · admin

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 24, 2022 In the latest assault on women’s rights, Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers ordered all domestic and international NGOs to prevent female employees from working at their jobs, claiming that many were not observing dress codes in the conservative Muslim nation. “There have been serious complaints regarding the nonobservance of the

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Posted in Afghan Women, Economic News, Education, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Misogyny, Taliban war on women |
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‘I was a policewoman. Now I beg in the street’: life for Afghan women one year after the Taliban took power

14th August, 2022 · admin

The Guardian (UK): Students, mothers, widows, workers and artists explain how their world has altered under ‘gender apartheid’ Now women’s lives across the country have been fundamentally changed, their rights curtailed and freedoms restricted. Campaigners have called the Taliban’s orders to deny women education, remove them from their jobs and force them back under the

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Posted in Afghan Women, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Misogyny, Taliban war on women |
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‘Death In Slow Motion’: Amnesty Report Documents Taliban’s ‘Suffocating Crackdown’ On Women, Girls

27th July, 2022 · admin

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 27, 2022 A “suffocating” Taliban crackdown on human rights is destroying the lives of Afghan women and girls,’ Amnesty International has warned. Since returning to power almost one year ago, the radical group has systematically violated women’s and girls’ rights to education, work, and free movement, Amnesty International said in

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Posted in Afghan Women, Everyday Life, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Misogyny, Taliban torture, Taliban war on women |
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Afghanistan, Pakistan Rank Lowest In Gender-Gap Index

14th July, 2022 · admin

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 13, 2022 Afghanistan and Pakistan are at the bottom of the global gender gap index for 2022, dragged down by the lack of opportunities for women in the conservative, male-dominated societies. The World Economic Forum, in a report released on July 13, says the two countries are joined by Iran in the

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Posted in Afghan Women, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Misogyny |
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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 rule takes toll on Afghanistan’s academics — especially women

1st June, 2022 · admin

Nature.com: The academic week has been split so that male and female students can be taught separately, for three days each. Academics say this segregation, and the shortage of female lecturers, has reduced the quality of education, particularly for women. Some subjects have even been discontinued for female students, according to some scholars and students.

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Posted in Afghan Women, Ethnic Issues, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Ethnic descrimination, Life under Taliban rule, Misogyny, Pashtunization |
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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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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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Shrinking public space for Afghan women as Taliban expands curbs

6th April, 2022 · admin

Al Jazeera: The group is reimposing draconian restrictions, especially against women, that are reminiscent of their past regime.  While there are no specific restrictions on women travelling within the city, the Taliban has reportedly instructed local taxi drivers in the Afghan cities against taking unaccompanied female passengers or if they are not dressed in a

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Posted in Afghan Women, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Misogyny |
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UN Expresses ‘Deep Concern’ Over Taliban’s Latest Moves To Further Restrict Girls, Women, And Media

28th March, 2022 · admin

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty March 28, 2022 The United Nations Security Council has expressed deep concern after the Taliban-led government ordered girls be denied access to high school education amid reports of further restrictions on women and media, including a fresh ban on news bulletins by the BBC and Voice of America (VOA). “The members

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Posted in Afghan Women, Education, Human Rights, Taliban, UN-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Domestic Violence, Life under Taliban rule, Misogyny, Nimroz |
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