Nature.com: The academic week has been split so that male and female students can be taught separately, for three days each. Academics say this segregation, and the shortage of female lecturers, has reduced the quality of education, particularly for women. Some subjects have even been discontinued for female students, according to some scholars and students.
8am: In a letter, the Taliban’s Education Department in Ghazni province has ordered all girls’ schools from fourth grade to sixth to wear full hijab and cover their faces while commuting to school. Sources from some girls’ schools in Ghazni have confirmed that it is added in the letter that students who do not follow
Many Afghan women who lost jobs after the Taliban seized power in the country are now working to support their families by running home businesses. That’s what Shataba Jalal is doing and her business requires a very special skill. Safiullah Ahmadzai has the story, narrated by Anne Ball.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 29, 2022 Chanting “Bread, work, freedom,” some two dozen women took to the streets of the Afghan capital of Kabul on May 29 to protest against the Taliban’s harsh restrictions on their rights. The Taliban has rolled back women’s rights since returning to power in August 2021. Girls have been
8am: The female police officer added that after seven hours in custody of Intelligence Department of Taliban, she was released off with the mediation of elders, and her husband, who was a taxi driver, was forced to buy a weapon to give the Taliban. Click here to read more (external link).
8am: The head of the Taliban’s Virtue Promotion, Mawlawi Abdul Rahman, has ordered the province’s urban transportation services not to give ride women alone in cars, rickshaws, and bikes. According to him, carrying women alone in cars causes moral corruption. Click here to read more (external link).
Ayaz Gul VOA News May 27, 2022 ISLAMABAD — The Afghan Taliban have turned down renewed calls by the United Nations for the Islamist rulers to reverse restrictions on the human rights of women in Afghanistan, saying they are in line with local religious and cultural values. The hard-line group’s foreign ministry issued a statement Friday
Ayaz Gul VOA News May 26, 2022 ISLAMABAD — A senior United Nations observer Thursday expressed serious concern about the “erasure of women from public life” across Afghanistan since the Islamist Taliban seized power in August. “Afghanistan is facing a plethora of critical human rights challenges that are having a severe impact on the population,” Richard
Washington Examiner: “I don’t feel safe,” said one woman. “Every minute I wonder what right will be taken away from me tomorrow. I can’t sleep at night. I rarely leave the house, fearing the Taliban will do something to me or my sisters.” Another woman explained she feels “like a prisoner at home. I don’t
EPA-EFE: Afghan volunteers have organized a mobile educational program to tour remote areas, giving children hope after the Taliban closed schools for girls in March. An Afghan NGO, Pen Path, gives lessons and library books to children who might otherwise be starved of any opportunity to learn. Click here to view photo essay (external link).