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UN officials raise concern on situation of women in Afghanistan
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
As Afghan women continue to remain deprived of their basic rights, the United Nations officials have once again raised concerns on the situation of women in Afghanistan under the Taliban rule.
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Afghan woman establishes carpet weaving centre in Faizabad, engaging girls
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
An Afghan woman has established a carpet weaving centre that offers about 200 other women possibilities for vocational training, especially to the girls who are left without education in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, reported TOLOnews.
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Afghan woman held captive in dark room for 25 years rescued by police
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
An Afghan woman held captive in a dark room for 25 years has been rescued by the Kabul police, the Interior Ministry confirmed on Thursday, reported Khaama Press
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Political upheaval worsened female illiteracy in Afghanistan, say activist
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Amid the worsening humanitarian situation in Afghanistan, especially that of women and young mothers, women's rights activists have said the recent political upheaval and repressive policies of the Taliban have not only set the country back by decades but also adversely affected the female l
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Afghan girls forced into marriages, education denied
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Following the two years of Taliban's rule in Afghanistan, the lack of opportunities for girls has led them to fall into arranged marriages and denied enrollment in religious schools, reported Khaama Press.
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Afghanistan cannot develop without education: Taliban’s political deputy o
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The Taliban appointed political deputy of the foreign ministry of Afghanistan Sher Mohammad Abad Stanekzai has said the country cannot develop without education, Khaama Press reported.
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Muslim world condemns Taliban's ban on higher education for women: US Stat
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Blinken said: "When the Taliban enacted restrictive bans on higher education for women, governments from across the Muslim world spoke up to condemn the Taliban's decision," and that they argued that the actions were inhumane and contrary to Islamic beliefs.
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Afghan girls, barred from education, turn to Madrassas to learn religious
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Afghan girls have turned to madrassas (religious schools) to learn the religious sciences since the country's closure of schools for girls above the sixth grade, TOLOnews reported.
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Afghan clerics calls on Taliban to ensure access of education to women in
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
As Afghan females continue to suffer under Taliban's hardline regime, religious clerics of the country have called upon the Taliban to ensure access of educational opportunities, TOLOnews reported.
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US VP Kamala Harris 'deeply saddened' by ban on Afghan girls' schooling
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
"We will never stop championing the rights of women and girls around the world," Harris said on Twitter.
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Afghan families call on Taliban to reopen schools for girls above grade 6
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Families in Afghanistan called on the Taliban yet again to open schools for girls in grades 7 to 12 as they are worried about the future of their daughters in the country under the regime of the organisation, TOLOnews reported.
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Universities reopen in Afghanistan, women still barred
Updated : 3 years ago IST
The Taliban-led Ministry of Higher Education in a statement on Wednesday said that male students' classes at public universities would commence on Monday.
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