Tolo News: Earlier the education authorities announced that segregation between the genders is required, and male and female students must attend classes in different shifts. But recently students told TOLO news that they might attend a class only once a week to show their homework and receive assignments. Also, students say experienced professors are in
Ariana: Afghanistan’s education ministry is planning to segregate schools by gender, officials said on Sunday. There will be schools only for boys and there will be schools only for girls, according to officials. In areas where it is not possible to have separate schools for girls and boys, they will go to the same school
The Guardian (UK): The Afghan journalist Zahra Joya has been named as one of Time’s women of the year 2022 for her reporting of women’s lives in Afghanistan through her news agency, Rukhshana Media. Now living as a refugee in the UK, Joya continues to run Rukhshana Media from exile, publishing the reporting of her
Ayaz Gul VOA News March 3, 2022 ISLAMABAD — The United States has initiated talks with Muslim-majority countries to encourage them to take the lead in pressing Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers not to exclude the country’s women from public life in the name of religion. Rina Amiri, the U.S. special envoy for Afghan women, girls, and human
8am: The Ministry of Enjoining the Good and Forbidding the Evil has announced that from now on, females will not be permitted to enter the ministries of the country without an Islamic hijab. The ministry has issued the order while women have not yet been authorized to go to their duties. Click here to read
Tolo News: Zarifa Ghafari, the former mayor of Maidan Shahr in Maidan Wardak province, has returned to the country. Ghafari was appointed mayor of Maidan Wardak by former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in 2018. She has worked in many government positions. “I came here to help—and, if I am able, to build trust between
Reuters: As Afghan universities reopen, some women can’t afford to return. Women and their relatives have lost jobs, straining finances. Economic crisis could reverse gains in female education. Taliban say they are working to support women in business. Click here to read more (external link).
Ministry of #Interior of the #Taliban released a video of #women activists confessing to being paid to do activism. Activists confessing to wrongdoing on camera after abduction, does it sound familiar? Story of every tyrannical regime ever.pic.twitter.com/rLWZQbARe7 — Obaidullah Baheer (@ObaidullaBaheer) February 21, 2022 By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi Golnaz Esfandiari February 23, 2022 For months, Afghan
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi Abubakar Siddique February 22, 2022 Three years ago, Nida, a young Afghan entrepreneur, established a modern beauty parlor in Shahr-e Nau, an upscale neighborhood in Kabul. Business steadily grew as she attracted a loyal clientele for beauty and hair treatments in the capital. And as profits rose, the salon expanded, eventually employing
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty February 22, 2022 The Taliban’s religious police have told working women in Afghan government departments that they must cover up or they may face losing their jobs. The Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice on February 22 said in a proclamation that women should not report to