Khaama: International media has reported the United Nations agencies including UNICEF, World Health Organization and WFP have failed to protect the rights of their female Afghan employees under the Taliban administration in Afghanistan. The London-based news agency Tortoise Media has recently highlighted in one of its reports titled “UN betrays women in Afghanistan” that the
8am: Female prisoners in Taliban-controlled prisons in the provinces of Jowzjan, Faryab, and Samangan are enduring a deplorable situation. They face humiliation, insults, physical torture, and sexual assault. According to the findings of Hasht-e Subh Daily, since the collapse of the Republic regime, the Taliban have detained and imprisoned 90 women in the three northern
Akmal Dawi VOA News May 12, 2023 WASHINGTON — As the pandemic-related remote work model fades in most parts of the world, women in Afghanistan have found the practice a potential remedy to the Taliban’s ban on women being employed outside the home. Women employed by the United Nations and other international aid agencies are often
Ariana: Global progress in reducing deaths of pregnant women, mothers and babies has flatlined for eight years due to decreasing investments in maternal and newborn health, according to a new report from the United Nations (UN). The report shows that over 4.5 million women and babies die every year during pregnancy, childbirth or the first
Khaama: The U.N. has accused the de facto authorities of detaining, harassing, and imposing “severe” restrictions on the movements of its female employees working with the Agency in the country. “This is the most recent in a series of discriminatory – and unlawful – measures implemented by the de facto authorities to severely restrict women
Akmal Dawi VOA News May 9, 2023 WASHINGTON — The government of Canada says it is determined to reach its target of admitting at least 40,000 Afghan refugees by the end of the year. More than 30,600 Afghans have been resettled in Canada since August 2021 when Ottawa announced it would admit thousands of Afghans whose
Ayaz Gul VOA News May 8, 2023 ISLAMABAD — The chief diplomat of Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban insisted Monday that his government had not banned girls’ education “permanently,” while women continue to work in different sectors across the country. Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi addressed a seminar in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, to wrap up a four-day
Ayaz Gul VOA News May 5, 2023 ISLAMABAD — A weeklong special U.N. mission on human rights in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan has found an unprecedented level of “systemic gender-based” discrimination that severely threatens the impoverished country’s future. The United Nations released preliminary findings of the two-member mission Friday, saying the study concluded Thursday and took place amid
8am: Sources on Wednesday, May 3, told Hasht-e Subh that the Taliban’s Directorate of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Herat has warned drivers in this province not to allow women without a veil to ride in their cars. According to sources, the Taliban’s morality police have been present at some of the
Khaama: Taliban’s Ministry of Public Health has announced that only male students are allowed to participate in the ‘Supplementary Exam’ to pursue their specialized study fields. The announcement comes following the ban of female university students from the Medical Council’s ‘Exit Exams’ prompting massive reactions, and being described as a gender-based discrimination. Click here to