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Taliban issue new rules for female university students
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 13 (ANI): Taliban issued new rules for Afghan women attending universities on Sunday under which they will be required to wear head coverings and the classrooms will be gender-segregated.
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Undeterred by violence, Afghan women continue to challenge Taliban
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Tel Aviv [Israel], September 13 (ANI): As the Taliban continue to tighten their grip on Afghanistan, reports of harassment and brutalities against women have started emerging from the country.
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Taliban use whips, sticks to drive away Afghan women protesting all-male g
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 9 (ANI): Afghan women, who were protesting against the all-male Afghanistan's new interim government on Wednesday in Kabul, were driven away by the Taliban.
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Sales of hijabs, burqas soar in Afghanistan after Taliban mandates it for
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 5 (ANI): In Afghanistan, sales of hijab and burqa increased after the Taliban announced that only women wearing the hijab will have access to education and work.
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Women hold protest in Taliban-controlled Kabul for decision-making roles i
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 3 (ANI): A group of Afghan women activists staged a protest in Kabul on Friday, seeking equal rights and to ensure decision-making roles for them in political life in the country that has been taken over by the Taliban.
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Women stage protest in Herat, demands representation in Afghanistan's new
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan] September 2 (ANI): Dozens of Afghan women on Thursday held protests in Herat demanding rights and female representation in the government formation after the Taliban took control of the war-ravaged country.
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After US exit, Afghan women stare at uncertain future under Taliban
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 1 (ANI): Despite the Taliban's claims about their new outlook on issues including women's rights, experts believe that their latest rein of Afghanistan will be no different than what transpired in the 1990s, when the terrorist group used terror to exercise powe
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Kabul Mayor appointed by Taliban imposes sharia laws amid talks of being m
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 31 (ANI): The newly-appointed Kabul mayor, who is also the head of the Taliban's municipality commission, Hamdullah Nomani on Monday enforced Sharia law in the capital.
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Afghanistan: UN committees urge Taliban to honour promises to protect wome
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], August 30 (ANI): Two UN Committees on Monday (local time) called on the Taliban to honour their pledge to protect Afghan women and girls, and to respect their human rights.
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Taliban directs Afghan women to work from home, says they are 'not trained
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 26 (ANI): Admitting that women are not safe in the present Taliban regime, the outfit directed Afghan women to work from home.
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Afghan women to face uncertain future under Taliban regime, warn experts
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 26 (ANI): As the Taliban took control of Afghanistan once again after 20 years, experts believe that Afghan women are most likely to face an uncertain future under the terrorist group regime.
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Taliban search house-to-house for women, girls for marriage, says escaped
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 25 (ANI): In a moving report a journalist, who escaped from Afghanistan, has described how life has taken a 180-degree turn for Afghan women after the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban.
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