8am: The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has called on the Taliban to immediately release five women’s rights activists, including Zarifa Yaqubi. “Family members have not been permitted to visit them and there is no clear information about any charges or why they are being held [captive],” UNAMA tweeted on Saturday (December 3rd).
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi Abubakar Siddique December 1, 2022 In the 15 months since the Taliban took power, there has been a dramatic increase in early marriages of Afghan girls — a trend activists and human rights campaigners attribute to parents’ belief that securing a spouse for their girls is better than seeing them forced to
VICE: Analysts say Pakistan made a power move by sending a female minister to talk shop with the all-men government of Afghanistan. Adam Weinstein, research fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, told VICE World News, that he doesn’t think “women-led delegations significantly alter the Taliban’s view on women’s rights.” “But they do uphold
8am: Local sources in Herat report new restrictions imposed by the Taliban on women in the hospital in Herat province. On Wednesday, November 30, the sources, talking to Hasht-e Subh said that the Taliban have banned Ultrasound (Television Examinations) for women in the mentioned hospital. Click here to read more (external link).
A group of women and girls has been holding secret taekwondo sessions in the Afghan capital, Kabul. The Taliban, who returned to power in August 2021, has banned women from participating in sports and from exercising in public. The athletes’ faces have been covered and their voices changed for their safety.
8am: In an interview on Saturday, sources said the Taliban had called women’s tailoring “haram”. On Wednesday last week, the Taliban entered women’s tailor shops in different parts of Charikar city, the capital of the province, and told female tailors to close their shops, according to sources. The Taliban have told them to find another
Ayaz Gul VOA News November 25, 2022 ISLAMABAD — A group of independent experts at the United Nations has warned that Taliban restrictions on women’s rights and freedoms in Afghanistan could amount to a “crime against humanity.” The experts demanded in a joint statement Friday that the Taliban treatment of women and girls “should be investigated
Tolo News: The Islamic Emirate [Taliban] said on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women that women’s rights are respected in Afghanistan more than ever before and that the current government is committed to upholding the rights of all citizens. Click here to read more (external link). Related UN Experts Denounce Taliban
Tolo News: Sellers of mobile phone SIM cards in Uruzgan are forbidden from selling the cards to women. Officials of the communication and information technology department in Uruzgan said that until the department creates a special SIM card sales section for women, nobody is allowed to sell SIM cards to women. Click here to read
Akmal Dawi VOA News November 22, 2022 The explosion at Kaaj educational center in Kabul was so powerful that it lifted 17-year-old Fatima Amiri off the ground before thrusting her slim body several meters away. “I did not faint,” Amiri told VOA over the phone from her home in Kabul. “I ran to a nearby