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Women’s Hair Salons in Baghlan Shut Down by Taliban

10th January, 2023 · admin

8am: Local sources said on Tuesday, January 10, that the Taliban’s Vice and Virtue Agents in Baghlan, in addition to shutting down women’s hairdressing salons, have warned land owners and dealers to refrain from issuing rent premises to women’s hairdressing salons. The Taliban have already closed women’s hair salons in Kunduz, Takhar and Badakhshan provinces.

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Posted in Afghan Women, Economic News, Taliban | Tags: Baghlan, Balkh, Life under Taliban rule, Taliban war on women |
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Millions to Fall Into Famine As Consequence of Taliban Ban on Female Employees, Says NRC Secretary General

9th January, 2023 · admin

8am: On the second day of his visit to Afghanistan, the Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) highlighted the consequences of the Taliban ban on female NGO staff in Afghanistan. In a thread on Twitter on Monday, January 9, the NRC Secretary General, Jan Egeland, pointed to the devastating consequences of the ban

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Posted in Afghan Women, Economic News, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Taliban war on women |
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Poverty Trauma and Taliban’s Misogyny: Forced, Underage Marriages Increased in Afghanistan

8th January, 2023 · admin

8am: Hasht-e-Sobh has found that the deprivation of women has increased family violence, selling and making the girls get forcibly married while being underage in Afghan society. In the meantime, old men and some of the Taliban authorities are trying to abuse the destitution of families and get married to their virgin, underage daughters. Click

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Posted in Afghan Women, Everyday Life, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: child marriage, Domestic Violence, Forced marriage by Taliban, Life under Taliban rule, Taliban Rapists, Taliban war on women |
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‘We Don’t Have Food To Eat’: Afghans Pay The Price As Foreign NGOs Suspend Aid After Taliban Ban

7th January, 2023 · admin

By Abubakar Siddique RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi January 7, 2023 Zahra has relied on handouts of cooking oil, rice, and flour from local and foreign aid agencies to feed her seven children. The 35-year-old is among the millions of Afghans who have received lifesaving assistance in the face of a worsening humanitarian and economic crisis. But many

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Posted in Afghan Women, Economic News, Taliban, UN-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Poverty, Taliban government failure, Taliban war on women |
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US Warns of Costs if Taliban Do Not Reverse Bans on Women

5th January, 2023 · admin

Nike Ching VOA News January 4, 2023 WASHINGTON — The United States has been assessing the impact of the Afghan Taliban’s ban on the employment of women by nongovernmental organizations while pondering policy options that may be unveiled soon. “We’re committed to standing up for women wherever their rights are threatened, including in Afghanistan, as unfortunately

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Posted in Afghan Women, Human Rights, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Taliban war on women |
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Afghan Educator Who Tore Up His Degrees Vows To Fight Taliban Ban On Women

31st December, 2022 · admin

AFP: Ismail Mashal, a lecturer in journalism for more than a decade at three universities in Kabul, shred his qualifications and resigned from the institutions after the ban was issued this month. “I’m raising my voice. I’m standing with my sisters…. My protest will continue even if it costs my life,” Mashal, 35, told AFP

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Posted in Afghan Women, Economic News, Education, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Taliban war on women |
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Afghanistan: Woman protests Taliban’s education ban with single word of God

30th December, 2022 · admin

BBC News: Angered at the prospect of seeing her future disappear, the woman (whose name we have changed for her safety) staged an extraordinary solo protest in front of Kabul University, invoking words from the Quran. On Sunday 25 December, Adela stood in front of the entrance holding up a board with a particularly powerful

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Posted in Afghan Women, Education, Muslims and Islam, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Protest, Taliban war on women |
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‘Teach Everyone Or No One’: Afghan Men Join In Protests Against Taliban’s Ban On Women’s Education

29th December, 2022 · admin

By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi December 29, 2022 Afghan women have found a strong supporter as they protest against the Taliban banning women from universities — men. Hundreds of male professors and students, as well as husbands and fathers, are publicly airing their opposition to the latest restriction imposed by the Taliban against their “sisters.” While women

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Posted in Afghan Women, Education, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Nida Mohammad Nadim, Protest, Taliban war on women |
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Afghan Medical Student Speaks Out About Taliban’s University Ban on Women

28th December, 2022 · admin

VOA News December 28, 2022 Nazrana Ghaffar Yousufzai Roshan Noorzai Twenty-one-year-old Zamzama Ghazal was at her sister’s graduation ceremony when she heard about the Taliban’s ban on women’s university education. “It was a painful sight,” said Ghazal, a fourth-year medical student at Shifa University in Kabul. “Instead of celebration, there were tears and grieving. All

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Posted in Afghan Women, Education, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Taliban war on women |
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Taliban (IEA) Bans Two Female Training Centers in Kabul & Herat

27th December, 2022 · admin

Khaama: Roya Mahboob, the Founder of the Afghan Girls Robotic Team tweeted on Monday that the Taliban authorities forcibly shut the education centers in Herat and Kabul. More than a thousand female students were taking pieces training in business, Robotics, coding, and Information Communications Technology. Following the latest decree by the Ministry of Higher Education

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Posted in Afghan Women, Education, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Taliban war on women |
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