Ayaz Gul VOA News November 25, 2022 ISLAMABAD — A group of independent experts at the United Nations has warned that Taliban restrictions on women’s rights and freedoms in Afghanistan could amount to a “crime against humanity.” The experts demanded in a joint statement Friday that the Taliban treatment of women and girls “should be investigated
Tolo News: The Islamic Emirate [Taliban] said on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women that women’s rights are respected in Afghanistan more than ever before and that the current government is committed to upholding the rights of all citizens. Click here to read more (external link). Related UN Experts Denounce Taliban
Tolo News: Sellers of mobile phone SIM cards in Uruzgan are forbidden from selling the cards to women. Officials of the communication and information technology department in Uruzgan said that until the department creates a special SIM card sales section for women, nobody is allowed to sell SIM cards to women. Click here to read
Khaama: The President of the European Parliament, in response to the continued stiffening of Taliban restrictions against women, stated that Afghan women are “squeezed out” of public life by the Taliban, who want the women to be “invisible.” The statement of the European Parliament comes at a time when the Taliban have yet to reopen
8am: The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) says that restricting women from working costs the Afghan economy $1 billion. The aid group tweeted on Friday (November 18th) that Afghanistan is estimated to lose $1 billion due to restrictions on women’s right to work. Following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, women’s freedom to work has been
Tolo News: At the United Nations General Assembly meeting held on November 10 on Afghanistan, several attendees criticized the policy that keeps Afghan women and girls from education and the workplace, highlighting that Afghanistan is the only country where girls are banned from going to school. The attendees reiterated that such a policy severely stunts
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi November 10, 2022 First came the curbs on girls’ education and women’s right to work, then the enforcement of strict dress codes. Now, Afghan women have been barred from entering public bathhouses and parks in Kabul following a decision by the Taliban’s notorious Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention
Reuters: Afghan women were stopped from entering amusement parks in Kabul on Wednesday after the Taliban’s morality ministry said there would be restrictions on women being able to access public parks. Two park operators, who asked to remain anonymous to speak on a sensitive matter, said they had been told by Taliban officials not to
UN: “We are erased,” said Mahbooba Seraj, a human rights activist from Afghanistan. “Today the human rights in Afghanistan does not exist. Women of Afghanistan do not exist for the Taliban.” Seraj is an Afghan women’s rights activist based in Afghanistan. She chose to stay in the country after the Taliban takeover to be a
8am: A reliable source in the Ministry of Higher Education, who does not want his name to be mentioned in this report, told Hasht-e Subh Daily that according to the order of the directors of the Ministry, female participants won’t be accepted in specialized and professional fields of higher education this year. This source has