Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty March 28, 2022 The United Nations Security Council has expressed deep concern after the Taliban-led government ordered girls be denied access to high school education amid reports of further restrictions on women and media, including a fresh ban on news bulletins by the BBC and Voice of America (VOA). “The members
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty March 27, 2022 A part of the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan tasked with enforcing adherence to strict Islamic fundamentalism has ordered all amusement parks in the capital to be segregated by gender. The limit on such mixing at fun parks will deepen concerns for girls’ and women’s rights as it follows
Tolo News: Female students in Herat in grades 7-12, who were allowed to participate in classes, were told to stay home as the Islamic Emirate closed secondary and high schools for the girls across Afghanistan. Herat was the only province where female students above the 6th grade were allowed to go to schools for the
8am: The Department of Virtue Promotion in Balkh province has instructed the faculties of Balkh University to not permit students to enter the university with smartphones. According to the announcement, the violators will be punished in accordance with Sharia law. Click here to read more (external link). Related Kabul International Airport: Taliban Forbid Unaccompanied Women
Teachers, students & women's rights activists protest today in Kabul against restrictions on girls access to schools. https://t.co/QCnAjAQY2H — UNAMA News (@UNAMAnews) March 26, 2022 Ayaz Gul VOA News March 26, 2022 ISLAMABAD — Dozens of Afghan women, including students, teachers, parents and civil society activists, demonstrated in Kabul Saturday against the Taliban’s decision to keep
Tolo News: The United States abruptly cancelled meetings with the Islamic Emirate in Doha that were set to address key economic issues, officials said on Friday, after Islamic Emirate reversed a decision to allow all girls to return to high school classes. The cancellation of talks was the first concrete sign that the Islamic Emirate’s
By Abubakar Siddique RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi March 25, 2022 After her husband died, Gul Saka managed to survive by doing odd jobs and collecting a meager pension from the Afghan government. Now the widow is struggling to feed her 10 children amid a devastating economic and humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, where millions are on the brink
Ayaz Gul VOA News March 23, 2022 ISLAMABAD — The Taliban reopened schools in Afghanistan after the winter break Wednesday but continued a ban on grade seven to 12 girls, saying they still need time to draw up a plan for them in line with Islamic law or Sharia. The move swiftly drew domestic and international
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty March 21, 2022 International aid should be tied to the Taliban respecting human rights, in particular women’s and girls’ right to education, Human Rights Watch said in a new report as the militant group pledged to reopen all girls’ secondary schools on March 23. “International donors seeking to fund education for
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi March 16, 2022 Gender segregation was a hallmark of the Taliban’s brutal regime in Afghanistan in the 1990s, when unrelated men and women were barred from mixing in public places. Since regaining power in August, the militant group has gradually resurrected its discriminatory policies, enforcing strict segregation in universities, government offices, and