By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi December 29, 2022 Afghan women have found a strong supporter as they protest against the Taliban banning women from universities — men. Hundreds of male professors and students, as well as husbands and fathers, are publicly airing their opposition to the latest restriction imposed by the Taliban against their “sisters.” While women
VOA News December 28, 2022 Nazrana Ghaffar Yousufzai Roshan Noorzai Twenty-one-year-old Zamzama Ghazal was at her sister’s graduation ceremony when she heard about the Taliban’s ban on women’s university education. “It was a painful sight,” said Ghazal, a fourth-year medical student at Shifa University in Kabul. “Instead of celebration, there were tears and grieving. All
Khaama: Roya Mahboob, the Founder of the Afghan Girls Robotic Team tweeted on Monday that the Taliban authorities forcibly shut the education centers in Herat and Kabul. More than a thousand female students were taking pieces training in business, Robotics, coding, and Information Communications Technology. Following the latest decree by the Ministry of Higher Education
Frud Behzan Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 26, 2022 After forcibly seizing power in Afghanistan in 2021, the Taliban made a public effort to assuage concerns by the international community that it would return to its brutal rule of the 1990s. But the militant Islamist group has gradually reverted to its repressive policies of the
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi December 25, 2022 Worldwide condemnation against the Taliban decision to ban women from working at domestic and international NGOs heightened on December 25, with at least three foreign groups saying they will suspend operations in Afghanistan. The Swiss-based CARE, the U.S.-based Save the Children, and the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRE) all said
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 24, 2022 In the latest assault on women’s rights, Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers ordered all domestic and international NGOs to prevent female employees from working at their jobs, claiming that many were not observing dress codes in the conservative Muslim nation. “There have been serious complaints regarding the nonobservance of the
Tolo News: The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Ahmed el-Tayeb on Thursday said that he “deeply” regrets the decision issued by the authorities in Afghanistan, preventing Afghan women’s access to university education and adding that it contradicts Islamic Sharia and conflicts with its explicit call for men and women to pursue knowledge from the cradle to
RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi December 22, 2022 Taliban security forces have used violence and arrested several people as they dispersed a protest by Afghan women against a ruling that bans female students from universities. Afghanistan’s Taliban announced the decision to forbid women from universities late on December 20 in a letter from the Islamist group’s education ministry to
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi December 21, 2022 The Taliban’s ban on women attending university hit like a bombshell to current and future students, despite the consistent erosion of the rights of women and girls since the hard-line Islamist group seized power last year. The dire news, delivered by the Taliban’s Higher Education Ministry in a statement
Ayaz Gul VOA News December 20, 2022 ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders Tuesday ordered public and private universities across the country to immediately suspend female students access to higher education until further notice. A spokesman for the higher education ministry, Hafiz Zia Hashami, said the order had been formally delivered to all universities in line with