Ms. Magazine: In the Taliban’s Afghanistan, “bit by bit, all public spaces get closed off to women,” said Dr. Lauryn Oates of Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan. Click here to read more (external link). Related Afghan women become YouTubers as Taliban restrict work Afghan Women Turn to Entrepreneurship but Struggle to Access Capital
Omid Marzban and Michael Scollon Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 14, 2024 Facebook users in Afghanistan fear the Taliban’s plans to block or restrict access to the popular social-media platform will deal a death blow to what is left of free speech in the country. It is unclear what exactly the “finalized” policy announced last
Ariana: Officials from private schools say banning education of girls above the sixth grade has resulted in serious financial problems for these schools. According to them, with the ban on education for girls above the sixth grade, not only schools but also teachers and the transportation cycle have suffered economic problems. Click here to read
8am: It’s evening, and the last rays of sunlight, casting an orange hue across the canvas of paintings that have now changed their colors and mood, are spreading. Sitting amidst a multitude of paintings, she gazes sorrowfully at her artistic creations. On one hand, she worries about the darkening sky, and on the other, she
8am: Reports emerging from Badakhshan province indicate that Qari Abdul Basir, an official associated with a Taliban-affiliated jihad school in the city of Fayzabad, has been detained by Taliban intelligence. The detention follows allegations of sexual assault involving a 17-year-old girl. This incident adds to a concerning pattern, as it’s not the first time Taliban
Farkhunda Paimani Meena Barek VOA News April 6, 2024 WASHINGTON — The past 2½ years have been “very tough” for 28-year-old Maryam Maroof Arvin, as she has been “deprived of all her rights” under the Taliban in Afghanistan. Arvin was a master’s degree student in a private university in Kabul in December 2022 when the Taliban,
8am: This report features an interview with a girl who was arrested on charges of engaging in extramarital relationships and transferred to Kabul province’s detention center from the Pul-e Surkh area of Kabul. This girl recounts the bitter and horrifying experience of physical and psychological torture, suicide, forced marriages, the exploitation of girls as sexual
Sultan Barakat via Al Jazeera: From the religious perspective, too, the Taliban leaders must realise that they are accountable before Allah SWT for thrusting ignorance upon a generation of girls just so they can claim a perceived localised victory of tradition. When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan in their previous avatar from 1996 to 2001, the
8am: Taliban continued their arbitrary arrests of women activists, former military personnel, journalists, and social media activists over the past week. Three protesting girls, who are sisters, and their brother were detained in Kabul. Meanwhile, members of this group forcibly took an underage girl from her home in Pasaband district, Ghor province, and married her
Sima Samar via Ms. Magazine: The Taliban that now rules Afghanistan is the same extremist entity that revoked the basic human rights of Afghanistan’s women and girls and minorities when they were last in power in the 1990s. And now, they have done it again. I didn’t think that I would see history repeat itself