Tolo News: “In the past, the number of students attending universities reached 10 to 11,000, but after the political change in the country the number dropped to 4 to 5,000,” said Samiullah Danishyar, head of the Union. Meanwhile, officials at private universities in Kunduz said that the number of female students had dropped by 70%.
Tolo News: A delegation of Pakistani Islamic clerics who recently visited Kabul said it urged the Islamic Emirate to reopen schools for female students beyond grade six, according to the country’s media outlet Geo News. “In our meeting with the Afghan Taliban, we stressed that you must open girls’ schools and colleges so they can
Tolo News: Mawalawi Hibatullah called for the implementation of Sharia law, saying that the laws which are made by humans are not acceptable and that every problem should be solved by Sharia. “How is Sharia law implemented while the schools for girls’ students above grade six have remained closed for more than 313 days and
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 27, 2022 A “suffocating” Taliban crackdown on human rights is destroying the lives of Afghan women and girls,’ Amnesty International has warned. Since returning to power almost one year ago, the radical group has systematically violated women’s and girls’ rights to education, work, and free movement, Amnesty International said in
Ariana: Formation of a government on the basis of “broad representation” was emphasized in an international conference on Afghanistan that was held in the Uzbek capital Tashkent on Tuesday. Ensuring women’s rights and access of Afghan girls to receive a full school education was also emphasized, according to a statement released by the hosts. Click
Margaret Besheer VOA News July 25, 2022 The U.N. Women’s agency representative in Afghanistan said Monday that the rollback on women’s rights in that country is an “alarm bell” to the world that shows how decades of progress can be wiped away in months. “Anywhere in the world, the act of walking outside your front
8am: Local sources told Hasht-e Subh that Taliban members whipped a woman 20 times in Darqad district, Takhar province. The incident took place on Thursday (July 21st) in the center of the Darqad district. Sources say that the woman has been whipped for not being accompanied by a male companion or mahram. Click here to
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 20, 2022 The United Nations says that almost one year since the Taliban take-over, the situation of human rights in Afghanistan has worsened considerably despite an overall significant reduction in armed violence. The Human Rights In Afghanistan report by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), published on July 20, highlighted
The Guardian (UK): As economy collapses, women from Afghanistan’s finance ministry say they have been asked to suggest male relatives to replace them – The Taliban have asked female employees at Afghanistan’s finance ministry to send a male relative to do their job a year after female public-sector workers were barred from government work and
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 13, 2022 Afghanistan and Pakistan are at the bottom of the global gender gap index for 2022, dragged down by the lack of opportunities for women in the conservative, male-dominated societies. The World Economic Forum, in a report released on July 13, says the two countries are joined by Iran in the