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Category Archives: Human Rights

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Taliban in Ghazni: Female Students from 4th Grade to 6th Must Cover Their Faces

1st June, 2022 · admin

8am: In a letter, the Taliban’s Education Department in Ghazni province has ordered all girls’ schools from fourth grade to sixth to wear full hijab and cover their faces while commuting to school. Sources from some girls’ schools in Ghazni have confirmed that it is added in the letter that students who do not follow

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Posted in Afghan Women, Education, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Ghazni, Life under Taliban rule |
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Taliban Removes Persian and Baluchi Languages from the Courtroom Signboard in Nimruz

1st June, 2022 · admin

8am: In a new move, the Taliban group has removed Persian and Baluchi languages ​​from the courtroom signboard in Nimruz province. Nimruz residents have criticized this move of the Taliban, saying that the province has never been a place of ethnic disputes, but the Taliban are trying to create ethnic and linguistic divisions in the

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Posted in Ethnic Issues, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Baluch, Dari, Ethnic descrimination, Life under Taliban rule, Nimroz, Pashtun Taliban, Pashtunization, Persian |
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Global Monitors Decry Disappearance of 2 Journalists in Afghanistan

31st May, 2022 · admin

#Afghanistan🇦🇫: Two Afghan journalists, Ali Akbar Khairkhwa and Jamaluddin Deldar, have reportedly disappeared from Kabul, with their whereabouts unknown since May 24. https://t.co/8QvhenfvMD — IFJ Asia-Pacific (@ifjasiapacific) May 31, 2022 Ayaz Gul VOA News May 31, 2022 ISLAMABAD — International media monitors demanded Tuesday that Taliban rulers in Afghanistan urgently investigate the alleged disappearance of two

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Posted in Human Rights, Media, Taliban | Tags: Afghan Journalists, Life under Taliban rule |
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Women Protest In Afghan Capital Against Taliban Rights Restrictions

29th May, 2022 · admin

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 29, 2022 Chanting “Bread, work, freedom,” some two dozen women took to the streets of the Afghan capital of Kabul on May 29 to protest against the Taliban’s harsh restrictions on their rights. The Taliban has rolled back women’s rights since returning to power in August 2021. Girls have been

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Posted in Afghan Women, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Protest |
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An Estimated 70 Families from Andarab Forcibly Displaced by the Taliban

29th May, 2022 · admin

8am: Taliban fighters in Baghlan province have committed inhumane acts and war crimes by evicting residents from their villages. Local sources in Baghlan province have said that the Taliban have forcibly evicted about 70 families from three districts in the Andrab region, accusing them of being members of the National Resistance Front (NRF). Click here

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Posted in Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Human Rights, NRF - National Resistance Front, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Taliban torture, War Crime |
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Taliban in Kandahar: No Woman Alone Allowed to Use City Transportation Services

29th May, 2022 · admin

8am: The head of the Taliban’s Virtue Promotion, Mawlawi Abdul Rahman, has ordered the province’s urban transportation services not to give ride women alone in cars, rickshaws, and bikes. According to him, carrying women alone in cars causes moral corruption. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Afghan Women, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Kandahar, Life under Taliban rule |
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‘It Doesn’t Matter If We Get Killed,’ Afghanistan’s Hazaras Speak Out

27th May, 2022 · admin

The Diplomat: “They are the largest religious minority in Afghanistan, and an ethnic minority as well. Their history is one of persecution, with the latest attacks coming from ISIS-K [ISK, the Islamic State Khorasan]. The return of the Taliban has been a disaster for them,” Knox Thames, former special envoy on minority issues at the

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Posted in Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Ethnic Issues, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Hazaras |
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Taliban Rebuff UN Calls for Reversing Rules on Afghan Women

27th May, 2022 · admin

Ayaz Gul VOA News May 27, 2022 ISLAMABAD — The Afghan Taliban have turned down renewed calls by the United Nations for the Islamist rulers to reverse restrictions on the human rights of women in Afghanistan, saying they are in line with local religious and cultural values. The hard-line group’s foreign ministry issued a statement Friday

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Posted in Afghan Women, Human Rights, Taliban, UN-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Life under Taliban rule |
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UN Observer Says Taliban Policies Making Afghan Women Invisible

26th May, 2022 · admin

Ayaz Gul VOA News May 26, 2022 ISLAMABAD — A senior United Nations observer Thursday expressed serious concern about the “erasure of women from public life” across Afghanistan since the Islamist Taliban seized power in August. “Afghanistan is facing a plethora of critical human rights challenges that are having a severe impact on the population,” Richard

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Posted in Afghan Women, Human Rights, Society, Taliban | Tags: Domestic Violence, Misogyny |
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Taliban Raids, Tortures and Harasses the Residents of Paryan in Panjshir

26th May, 2022 · admin

8am: According to sources, the Taliban fighters have detained and tortured more than 20 residents of the Kereptab area in the district, including elders, farmers, shepherds, and children, and taken them all to their bases for further investigation and possible torture. As reported, the Taliban rebels have shot dead the dogs and livestock and have

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Posted in Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Human Rights, Security, Taliban | Tags: Panjshir, Taliban torture, Taliban War on Muslims, War Crime |
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