Ariana: Human Rights Watch has called for the International Cricket Council (ICC) to follow through on its own anti-discrimination policy and suspend Afghanistan from ICC membership. The organisation’s director of global initiatives Minky Worden said the suspension of Afghanistan from participating in international cricket should stand “until women and girls can once again participate in
Akmal Dawi VOA News January 12, 2023 International aid agencies, frustrated with the failure of more than a year of international isolation to budge the Taliban from their hard-line and misogynistic policies, are saying it is time for Western nations to send their diplomats back to the Afghan capital, Kabul. All countries have refused to
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi January 11, 2023 The intergovernmental Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) executive committee is gathering for an emergency meeting in the Saudi port city of Jeddah to discuss recent developments in Afghanistan and the humanitarian situation there under the Taliban-led government. The OIC, which aims on behalf of its 57 members to be
8am: Hasht-e-Sobh has found that the deprivation of women has increased family violence, selling and making the girls get forcibly married while being underage in Afghan society. In the meantime, old men and some of the Taliban authorities are trying to abuse the destitution of families and get married to their virgin, underage daughters. Click
Nike Ching VOA News January 4, 2023 WASHINGTON — The United States has been assessing the impact of the Afghan Taliban’s ban on the employment of women by nongovernmental organizations while pondering policy options that may be unveiled soon. “We’re committed to standing up for women wherever their rights are threatened, including in Afghanistan, as unfortunately
US News and World Report: Afghan women have seen their rights disappear since the Taliban regained control of their country in August 2021. In August 2021, after 20 years of war, the United States withdrew its troops from Afghanistan. Following America’s exit, the Taliban – a predominantly Pashtun, Islamic fundamentalist group – quickly regained power
AFP: Ismail Mashal, a lecturer in journalism for more than a decade at three universities in Kabul, shred his qualifications and resigned from the institutions after the ban was issued this month. “I’m raising my voice. I’m standing with my sisters…. My protest will continue even if it costs my life,” Mashal, 35, told AFP
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
Fox News: If I could prevent one teenage girl from choosing to jump from a rooftop rather than suffer rape and abuse at the hands of the Taliban, my time in Afghanistan, however long that might be, would be worthwhile. If I could prevent one family from being forced to watch their father shoved off
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