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Women Protest In Afghan Capital Against Taliban Rights Restrictions

29th May, 2022 · admin

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 29, 2022 Chanting “Bread, work, freedom,” some two dozen women took to the streets of the Afghan capital of Kabul on May 29 to protest against the Taliban’s harsh restrictions on their rights. The Taliban has rolled back women’s rights since returning to power in August 2021. Girls have been

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Posted in Afghan Women, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Protest |
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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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HRW Calls For Inquiries Into Fate of Female Protestors

9th April, 2022 · admin

Tolo News: “We are very concerned to hear that some of the women involved in the incident and in the event in Bamiyan may have been detained by the Taliban. This of course reminds everyone of the incident over months ago when the Taliban detained women protestors and denied having them in custody and held

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Posted in Afghan Women, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Bamiyan, Life under Taliban rule, Protest |
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Afghan Women, Girls Protest in Kabul for Right to Education

26th March, 2022 · admin

Teachers, students & women's rights activists protest today in Kabul against restrictions on girls access to schools. https://t.co/QCnAjAQY2H — UNAMA News (@UNAMAnews) March 26, 2022 Ayaz Gul VOA News March 26, 2022 ISLAMABAD — Dozens of Afghan women, including students, teachers, parents and civil society activists, demonstrated in Kabul Saturday against the Taliban’s decision to keep

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Posted in Afghan Children, Afghan Women, Education, Human Rights, Travel | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Protest |
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Hundreds Of Fired Afghan Judges Demand Jobs, Pay From Taliban-Led Government

21st March, 2022 · admin

By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi March 20, 2022 Hundreds of former Afghan government judges from 34 provinces who had been removed and replaced by the Taliban have filed suit to regain their jobs. In a March 20 news conference, the former judges demanded that the Taliban government return them to their positions and provide them with six

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Posted in Economic News, Taliban | Tags: Freedom of Speech, Life under Taliban rule, Protest, unemployment |
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Taliban Claims Right To Jail Protesters Following Disappearance Of Afghan Women Activists

22nd January, 2022 · admin

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 22, 2022 The Taliban has said it has a right to crack down on dissent and to jail protesters amid international concerns about the whereabouts of two women activists who were reportedly detained earlier this week in Kabul. While denying that any women were being held, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid

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Posted in Afghan Women, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Afghan resistance against Taliban, Freedom of Speech, Life under Taliban rule, Protest |
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Witnesses: Taliban Fire Warning Shots on Afghan Female Protesters

28th December, 2021 · admin

Dozens of women protested in Kabul on Tuesday in reaction to "discrimination and social injustice against women."#TOLOnews pic.twitter.com/jYxFsnawmM — TOLOnews (@TOLOnews) December 28, 2021 Ayaz Gul VOA News December 28, 2021 ISLAMABAD  — Witnesses say Taliban security forces in Afghanistan fired warning shots Tuesday to disperse a group of female activists in Kabul protesting restrictions placed

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Posted in Afghan Women, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Protest |
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Anti Taliban protest in Panjshir

26th December, 2021 · admin

Civilians who live in the occupied main valley of Panjshir are rising up & are raising voices against the Taliban oppressors. They are chanting long live @AhmadMassoud01 & NRF. They are starting a peaceful uprising while their brothers in arms are resisting from the side valleys. pic.twitter.com/HOX38jKuqP — Ali Maisam Nazary (@alinazary) December 26, 2021

Posted in NRF - National Resistance Front, Taliban | Tags: Afghan resistance against Taliban, Panjshir, Protest |
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Kabul Women Stage Rare Protest For Jobs, Food, And Freedom

16th December, 2021 · admin

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 16, 2021 Several dozen women have taken to the streets of the Afghan capital to demand the right to education, jobs, and political representation from the Taliban-installed government. As they marched through Kabul amid bitter cold conditions on December 16, the protesters chanted slogans calling for food, careers, and freedom, and held

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Posted in Afghan Women, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Protest |
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‘Safe Spaces’: After Taliban Crackdown, Afghan Women Take Their Protests Home

8th December, 2021 · admin

By Abubakar Siddique Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 8, 2021 Arifa Fatimi was among the hundreds of Afghan women who spilled into the streets of Kabul following the Taliban’s forcible takeover of Afghanistan in August. For weeks, the women staged almost daily protests to demand their rights, representation in government, and roles in the deeply religious

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