Roshan Noorzai VOA News December 31, 2021 WASHINGTON — Afghan women who served in the country’s military are speaking out about how their life has changed under the Taliban. “I feel like I am in prison,” said Jamila, 28, a former Afghan military officer in the western city of Herat. “I have to be at home.
AP: Arranging marriages for very young girls is common in the region. The groom’s family pays money to seal the deal, and the child usually stays with her parents until she is at least around 15. Yet with many unable to afford even basic food, some say they’d allow prospective grooms to take very young
VOA News December 29, 2021 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday announced the appointment of Rina Amiri as special envoy for Afghan women, girls, and human rights. The appointment comes as women in the country are facing increasing oppression by the ruling Taliban following the U.S. withdrawal in August. Earlier this week, the
Dozens of women protested in Kabul on Tuesday in reaction to "discrimination and social injustice against women."#TOLOnews pic.twitter.com/jYxFsnawmM — TOLOnews (@TOLOnews) December 28, 2021 Ayaz Gul VOA News December 28, 2021 ISLAMABAD — Witnesses say Taliban security forces in Afghanistan fired warning shots Tuesday to disperse a group of female activists in Kabul protesting restrictions placed
ISLAMABAD — A Pakistani government minister Monday criticized neighboring Afghanistan’s ruling Islamist Taliban for placing curbs on women, denouncing the curbs as “retrogressive thinking” and as posing threat to his country. Information Minister Fawad Hussain, while speaking to an Islamabad gathering, described the new Taliban government in Kabul as an “extremist regime.” “We want to fully
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 26, 2021 In a further move restricting women’s freedoms in Afghanistan, the Taliban says that women seeking to travel more than 72 kilometers should not be offered transport unless they are accompanied by a close male relative. An advisory distributed by the Taliban’s Ministry for the Promotion
Abubakar Siddique Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 24, 2021 The Taliban stunned the world with its rapid military takeover of Afghanistan in August, just as the last foreign troops were leaving the war-torn country. But observers say the militant Islamist group faces a battle to hold on to power as it struggles to transform from
The Guardian (UK): Football is obviously the bread and butter of this annual five-day, round-robin tournament but the game itself is also a vessel to community, a bringing together of the diaspora, including some who have recently escaped Afghanistan. It is an excuse for families to travel interstate and renew cultural roots – and make
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi Abubakar Siddique December 22, 2021 Dozens of Afghan girls speak in hushed voices as they cram inside a house in the Afghan capital, Kabul. For months, the house has served as a secret school, with around 50 girls attending science, math, and literature classes. They are among the millions of girls who
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 20, 2021 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August has had a “dramatic” impact on the country’s media, with more than four out of every 10 media outlets having disappeared and 60 percent of journalists and other media workers no longer being able to work.