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
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
The #Taliban Higher Education Minister Mulawi Nida Muhammad Nadeem says Among the #mujahideen , anyone who has carried out many explosions, we do not take the university exam from him. pic.twitter.com/Pr0wfGQAFu — Abdulhaq Omeri (@AbdulhaqOmeri) December 4, 2022 By Abubakar Siddique Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 15, 2022 One of the Taliban’s main goals since seizing
8am: Save the Children reports that girls are doing manual labor instead of learning in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. In a piece that appeared online on Monday (December 5th), Save the Children said that female students in Afghanistan have lost hope for the future after being banned from attending school since the Taliban regained control in August
8am: In the statement published today (Sunday, December 4th) by female protesters, it is stated that Alia Azizi is alive and in Taliban custody. Earlier, an independent source had confirmed to Hasht-e Subh that Alia Azizi had contacted her family, saying that she was alive and had been severely tortured in one of the Taliban
8am: The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has called on the Taliban to immediately release five women’s rights activists, including Zarifa Yaqubi. “Family members have not been permitted to visit them and there is no clear information about any charges or why they are being held [captive],” UNAMA tweeted on Saturday (December 3rd).
8am: Local sources in Herat report new restrictions imposed by the Taliban on women in the hospital in Herat province. On Wednesday, November 30, the sources, talking to Hasht-e Subh said that the Taliban have banned Ultrasound (Television Examinations) for women in the mentioned hospital. Click here to read more (external link).
8am: In an interview on Saturday, sources said the Taliban had called women’s tailoring “haram”. On Wednesday last week, the Taliban entered women’s tailor shops in different parts of Charikar city, the capital of the province, and told female tailors to close their shops, according to sources. The Taliban have told them to find another