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  • Resilience of Girls in the Three and a Half Years of Taliban Rule 29 Jan 2025

    Resilience of Girls in the Three and a Half Years of Taliban Rule
    Resilience of Girls in the Three and a Half Years of Taliban Rule

    After three and a half years of Taliban rule in Afghanistan, schools, universities, and educational institutions have been closed to women and girls. Their social, economic, and cultural activities have come to a complete standstill.

UNESCO’s Support for Female Journalists in Afghanistan 08 Jul 2024

UNESCO's Support for Female Journalists in Afghanistan UNESCO’s Support for Female Journalists in Afghanistan

Heather Barr: Excluding Women from the Doha Meeting is a Betrayal of Women’s Rights and Dignity 25 Jun 2024

Heather Barr: Excluding Women from the Doha Meeting is a Betrayal of Women's Rights and Dignity Heather Barr, associate director of the Women's Rights Division at Human Rights Watch, in connection with the third Doha Meeting, posted a message on their social media page, stating that no Afghan woman has been invited to represent Afghan women at the third Doha Meeting, and women's rights issues have been omitted from the agenda of this conference. Ms. Barr further added that she had hoped for progress from the United Nations in this regard through the presence of women at the second Doha Meeting, but in the third Doha Meeting, the United Nations did not invite any Afghan women. The associate director of the Women's Rights Division at Human Rights Watch has described this action of the United Nations as a betrayal of women's and girls' rights worldwide. However, some women's rights activists in Afghanistan argue that this action by the United Nations was unexpected for them, and the exclusion of women from the third Doha Meeting signifies that the world and the global community have left Afghan women alone. Regarding the exclusion of women from the third Doha Meeting, the Research and Development Institution has released a series of visual messages showing one hundred Afghan women from all 28 provinces of Afghanistan, who are calling for the boycott of the upcoming Doha conference. Furthermore, some activists and Afghan policymakers are also demanding the boycott of the third Doha Meeting. Heather Barr: Excluding Women from the Doha Meeting is a Betrayal of Women’s Rights and Dignity

Recruitment of Female Teachers in Ghazni Province Suspended until Further Notice 13 Jun 2024

Local sources in Ghazni province have reported the suspension of the recruitment of female teachers in girls' schools by the Taliban group in this province. Recruitment of Female Teachers in Ghazni Province Suspended until Further Notice

Women Should Lead Afghanistan 09 Sep 2021

Women Should Lead Afghanistan

For hundreds of years men have failed the nation of Afghanistan. With that fact in place, it is any wonder why the nation fails to recognize the need for women leaders today. Going back to the First Anglo-Afghan War, a protracted civil war that began in 1816. Now again today, the Taliban have been raiding […]

Women beaten for demanding their rights 09 Sep 2021

Women beaten for demanding their rights

“We want equal rights, we want women in government,” dozens of female protesters chanted as they marched down a street in Kabul on Wednesday. A day earlier, the Taliban had announced their interim cabinet of ministers. There are no women in it, and they’ve also abolished the women’s affairs ministry. “We cannot accept this, and […]

Afghanistan: Shukria Barakzai’s whispered voice notes and dramatic escape 28 Aug 2021

Afghanistan: Shukria Barakzai’s whispered voice notes and dramatic escape

For Shukria Barakzai, 15 August seemed, at first, an unremarkable Sunday morning. A prominent journalist and politician, a former member of the Afghan parliament and ambassador to Norway, she was a frequent traveller. She already had a few bags packed, as she was due to fly to Turkey later that day for a brief trip. […]

Taliban tell Afghan women to stay home from work because soldiers are ‘not trained’ to respect them 25 Aug 2021

Taliban tell Afghan women to stay home from work because soldiers are ‘not trained’ to respect them

Fear is mounting for women and girls in Afghanistan after the Taliban told working women to stay at home, admitting they were not safe in the hands of the militant group’s soldiers. Taliban spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid said at a news conference on Tuesday that women should not go to work for their own safety, undermining the group’s […]

Afghanistan: Taliban tell working women to stay at home 25 Aug 2021

Afghanistan: Taliban tell working women to stay at home

Working women in Afghanistan must stay at home until proper systems are in place to ensure their safety, a Taliban spokesman has told reporters. “It’s a very temporary procedure,” spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said. The Taliban, which enforced a strict version of Islamic law when they ran Afghanistan before 2001, retook full control of the country […]

Taliban vow to respect women, despite history of oppression 21 Aug 2021

Taliban vow to respect women, despite history of oppression

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban vowed Tuesday to respect women’s rights, forgive those who fought them and ensure Afghanistan does not become a haven for terrorists as part of a publicity blitz aimed at reassuring world powers and a fearful population. Following a lightning offensive across Afghanistan that saw many cities fall to the insurgents without […]

Who are the Taliban? 21 Aug 2021

Who are the Taliban?

The Taliban were removed from power in Afghanistan by US-led forces in 2001, but the group has seized control of the country once again following a rapid offensive. The capital, Kabul, was the last major city to fall to the offensive that began months ago but accelerated as the hardline Islamists gained control of territories. […]

Afghanistan: A woman’s story of life under the Taliban in 1999 21 Aug 2021

Afghanistan: A woman’s story of life under the Taliban in 1999

As the Taliban prepare to form a new government in Afghanistan, one woman tells the story of how her family were torn apart when her father disappeared during Taliban rule in 1999. Friba, who lives in London, was 10 years old when she last saw her father at their home in the western city of […]

Desperate Afghan Women Wait for U.S. Protection, as Promised 21 Aug 2021

Desperate Afghan Women Wait for U.S. Protection, as Promised

WASHINGTON — Even as they cling to hope of being rescued by the American government, Afghan women who worked with the United States over the past 20 years are destroying any hint of that association — shredding documents written in English, deleting social media apps and then burying their cellphones. Current and former U.S. officials […]

The Taliban Says It Will Now Respect the Rights of Afghan Women 21 Aug 2021

The Taliban Says It Will Now Respect the Rights of Afghan Women

(KABUL, Afghanistan) — The Taliban vowed Tuesday to respect women’s rights, forgive those who fought them and ensure Afghanistan does not become a haven for terrorists as part of a publicity blitz aimed at reassuring world powers and a fearful population. Following a lightning offensive across Afghanistan that saw many cities fall to the insurgents without a […]