Afghanistan International: A group of women took to the streets in western Kabul on Wednesday to protest against the Taliban’s policies toward women. Members of the “Afghanistan Movement to Change Women’s History” marched, chanting slogans against the Taliban, labelling the group as “terrorists,” and called for the overthrow of the Taliban government. The women, emphasising
Ayaz Gul VOA News September 9, 2024 Islamabad, Pakistan — The United Nations rights chief expressed his “abhorrence” Monday at the recent promulgation of “so-called morality laws” in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan that silence women or order them to cover their faces and bodies in public. Volker Türk told a U.N. Human Rights Council session in Geneva that
Neda Mohammad Nadeem, the Taliban’s Minister of Higher Education and a close ally of Hibatullah Akhundzada, has repeatedly called for the killing and revenge against the country’s citizens through fatwas. Most recently, he labeled social media users as “apostates,” asserting that all infidels worldwide have gathered on Facebook and X (formerly Twitter) to support infidels
By Margaret Besheer VOA News September 6, 2024 New York — A dozen U.N. Security Council ambassadors strongly condemned on Friday the Afghan Taliban’s recent “morality law” which further erodes the rights of women and girls in that country and called for its reversal. “On top of the existing edicts, this new directive confirms and extends wide-ranging
AFP: The text contains 35 articles. The most criticised dictates that a woman’s voice should not be raised outside the home and that they should not sing or read poetry aloud. Unrelated men and women are forbidden from looking at each other, and women are commanded to cover themselves entirely in front of non-Muslim women.
Afghanistan International: Local sources in Takhar province have reported that Taliban forces executed a former member of the Afghan National Army in the Ganj Ali Baik village, located in Taloqan city, the provincial capital. According to sources, the individual, identified as Hussain Rizwani, was a former commando who had taken up farming after the fall
8am: Following the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, girls and women in the country, particularly in Badakhshan province, are experiencing the harsh reality of not being able to attend school or university and the violence perpetrated by the group. These factors have led to an increase in forced marriages and mental health issues among girls and
Afghanistan International: German media reported that the country began the deportation of “criminal” Afghan migrants on Friday, August 30. The magazine Der Spiegel wrote that a flight carrying 28 Afghan “criminal” migrants departed from Leipzig Airport to Kabul today. According to the report, these migrants, who had criminal records, were deported from various states in
Abubakar Siddique and RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi August 29, 2024 The Taliban has attempted to police the public appearances and behavior of millions of Afghans, especially women, since seizing power in 2021. But the enforcement of the extremist group’s rules governing morality, including its strict Islamic dress code and gender segregation in society, was sporadic and
Ayaz Gul VOA News August 27, 2024 ISLAMABAD — A Taliban-controlled state broadcaster in Afghanistan silenced a female journalist and her image during a live media event Tuesday, apparently in compliance with the radical rulers’ recently enacted morality law that bans women from speaking or showing their faces in public. Officials of the de facto Taliban