8am: Women have staged a protest against the violation of their rights. They have called on the United Nations not to support the Taliban until they recognize women’s rights. The protests lasted for a limited time on Tuesday, (October 26). The women were chanting “We are hungry”, “The silence of the United Nations is embarrassing”,
8am: The trip of the Omid National Team to Bahrain has been canceled. Afghanistan’s Football Federation has said that the team has been deprived of preliminary competition for the Asian championship. Click here to read more (external link). Other Sports News Afghans eagerly gear up to watch their team face off against Scotland in T20
Jafar Haand Roshan Noorzai VOA News October 24, 2021 WASHINGTON — Women athletes in Afghanistan say the Taliban’s return to power has put an end to their dreams of playing sports at the national and international levels. “It is over,” said 21-year-old Homaira Barakzai, the captain of Afghanistan’s national handball team, adding that “Everything has changed
By Amos Chapple Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 22, 2021 Locals say a protest that took place in Kabul on October 21 shows the increasing desperation of Afghans women, whose freedoms have been stripped away by the Taliban since the hard-line Islamists seized power on August 15. Photographs taken by several news agencies on October 21
Mahjabeen's family was threatened not to speak to the media. And change the narrative that she comitted sucide. She did not. https://t.co/83riNVkqyh — Sarfaraz (@Sarfaraz1201) October 21, 2021 New York Post: She was killed earlier this month, but her death remained mostly hidden because her family had been threatened not to talk, claimed the coach,
شماری از بانوان چرا اعتراض مینمایند و خواسته های شان چیست؟ در این گزارش بیننده باشید. pic.twitter.com/hPJcMWS2mF — Aamaj News (@aamajnews24) October 21, 2021 ویدیو: زنان امروز بار دیگر در جادههای شهر کابل بهخاطر حقوق اساسی شان مانند آموزش و کار دست بهاعتراض زدند و از طالبان خواستند که مکاتب را به روی دختران باز
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 21, 2021 World soccer’s governing body FIFA says a second group of 57 Afghan refugees linked to women’s soccer and basketball has been evacuated from Afghanistan to Qatar. The group, comprising women and children, landed in Doha on October 20 on a Qatar Airways flight, FIFA said in a statement on October
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi October 21, 2021 Taliban militants have attacked several journalists covering a Kabul rally by a group of women demanding “work, bread, and education,” spurring concerns about the deterioration of the rights situation under Afghanistan’s new rulers. After it toppled the internationally recognized government in Kabul in mid-August, the Taliban claimed it would
New York Post: The team tried desperately and fruitlessly to get inside Hamid Karzai International Airport amid the frantic US evacuation, according to team member Soraya Karimi, 25, who was also a law student and rights activist, as well as the proud daughter of a woman police officer. Still, each time they got close to
Ayaz Gul VOA News October 14, 2021 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — Turkey hosted leaders of Afghanistan’s Taliban government for the first time Thursday, repeating its advice to the Islamist group on the need to form an inclusive government in the war-torn South Asian nation and to ensure Afghan female participation in education as well as public life.