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Taliban intensify repression of Afghan women, girls: Human Rights Watch
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Human Rights Watch has said that on the one hand, the Taliban continue to beg for recognition and foreign help, while on the other, they escalate repression of Afghan women and girls, Khaama Press reported.
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Taliban policies 'discriminatory', aims at removal of Afghan women from al
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
As per the reports of Amnesty International, the harassment campaign of the Taliban to systematically repress Afghan women from the public sphere is a misogyny and the policy to remove women and girls from public life is ongoing throughout the country under the Taliban's de facto regime.
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Ban on Afghan women working for NGOs by Taliban disrupting humanitarian op
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Even while aid organisations are still on the ground providing millions of people with life-saving assistance, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said that the prohibition on Afghan women working for national and international NGOs had already hindered hum
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Amid lack of rights under Taliban, women activists call for 'inclusion' in
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
As Afghan women continue to suffer under the Taliban and are deprived of fundamental rights, some women activists in Afghanistan have called for 'inclusion' in social life and urged the de-facto authorities to let them work, TOLOnews reported.
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Afghanistan women start food takeaway service amid work restrictions by Ta
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
In the face of Taliban prohibitions on employment, a group of Afghan women and girls in the province of Herat have established a kitchen and started a catering business to support themselves, TOLOnews reported.
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Girls in Afghan province of Balkh call on Taliban to reopen schools
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
As Afghan girls continue to remain deprived of education under the Taliban regime, girls in Balkh province have once again called out the de-facto authorities to reopen schools for them and let them learn, TOLOnews reported.
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Critical assistance cannot reach women, children in need: EU special envoy
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Regarding the situation of women in Afghanistan, EU Special Envoy Tomas Niklasson said that the prohibition against Afghan women working for NGOs is challenging fundamental principles and is having severe consequences, as critical assistance delivered by such organisations cannot reach women
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Afghanistan: Female students urge Taliban to open schools yet again
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Female students in Afghanistan have urged the Taliban once again to let them attend schools as schools above grade 6 in Afghanistan have been closed for females for over twenty months now, TOLOnews reported.
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Barred from schools, universities female students start own businesses in
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Due to the Taliban-imposed ban on access to education for female students in Afghanistan, some have launched their own enterprises in order to support their families, economically, TOLOnews reported.
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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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Afghanistan: Taliban forbids women from taking part in Eid celebrations in
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
In another harsh restriction, the Taliban has prohibited women from attending Eid celebrations in two provinces of Afghanistan, Khaama Press 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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