Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 16, 2021 Several dozen women have taken to the streets of the Afghan capital to demand the right to education, jobs, and political representation from the Taliban-installed government. As they marched through Kabul amid bitter cold conditions on December 16, the protesters chanted slogans calling for food, careers, and freedom, and held
Aamaj: The Taliban’s attempts to gain recognition of their government as legitimate one, has been unsuccessful. International community put conditions the very day that Taliban entered Kabul, and warned if Taliban do not change their approach towards women, they will not recognize their government. Click here to read more (external link).
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi December 14, 2021 The United Nations says the first four months of Taliban rule in Afghanistan have been marked by “credible allegations” of more than 100 extrajudicial killings, the denial of women’s rights, and the recruitment of boys to be soldiers. Addressing the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on December
Munaza Shaheed VOA News December 11, 2021 WASHINGTON — Fahima Sarfaraz, an acid attack survivor who briefly stayed in a shelter to avoid domestic violence, is concerned for her friends and other women who used to live with her in the group home in Kabul, Afghanistan. “Taliban have closed down all the women’s shelters in the
Al Jazeera: In the biting cold of a Kabul autumn, Hadia Ahmadi, a 43-year-old teacher who lost her job after the Taliban seized Afghanistan’s capital in August, sits by the roadside trying to earn the equivalent of a few cents polishing shoes. Click here to read more (external link).
BBC: Afghanistan’s women MPs fled for their lives when the Taliban took power – with only nine of 69 women MPs remaining, in hiding, in the country. Now scattered across the globe, many want to continue fighting for women’s rights and aim to set up an Afghan “women’s parliament in exile”. The largest group, numbering
By Abubakar Siddique Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 8, 2021 Arifa Fatimi was among the hundreds of Afghan women who spilled into the streets of Kabul following the Taliban’s forcible takeover of Afghanistan in August. For weeks, the women staged almost daily protests to demand their rights, representation in government, and roles in the deeply religious
The Independent (UK): ‘Leaving the country was the only option’ says captain. ‘They have killed the soul of women and just left their bodies’. Women and girls beaten and threatened with death for playing football in Afghanistan have revealed the horror of their long and harrowing journey to safety in Britain. Click here to read
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 7, 2021 WASHINGTON — Human rights advocate and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai urged the United States to increase its support of Afghan girls and women. “Afghanistan right now is the only country where girls do not have access to secondary education. They are prohibited from learning,” the 24-year-old said
By RFE/RL Gandhara December 6, 2021 Essential services for female survivors of gender-based violence in Afghanistan have been “decimated” since the Taliban took control of the country, Amnesty International said on December 6. In 26 interviews, survivors and service providers told the London-based rights group that the Taliban closed shelters and released inmates from prison,