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Three Afghan women give birth to babies aboard US evacuation plane
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], August 24 (ANI): US airmen helped three Afghan women give birth to babies after going into labor during an evacuation flight from Kabul in the past week, US army General Stephen Lyons, said on Monday.
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US calls for protecting Afghan women's rights after Taliban takeover
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 20 (ANI): The US is deeply worried about Afghan women and girls, their rights to education, work and freedom of movement post-Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.
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'Taliban can't ignore our progress, struggles over past 20 years' , says w
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 20 (ANI): Worried over their future under the Taliban regime, women in Afghanistan protested against the terrorist group expressing concerns over how they would be represented in any future government in the war-torn country.
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Afghan women journalists say they are now being "barred" from working
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 20 (ANI): Women journalists in Afghanistan have said that they are being barred from working by the Taliban who have overtaken control of the country and who had assured that women would be allowed to work corresponding with Sharia law.
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Desperate Afghan women throw babies over razor wire at Kabul airport compo
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 19 (ANI): Kabul airport has become a picture of chaos and desperation after the fall of Afghanistan into the hands of the Taliban.
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EU, US 'deeply worried about Afghan women and girls'
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], August 18 (ANI): US, European Union and several other countries, in a joint statement, expressed deep concern over the situation regarding women's and girls' rights in Afghanistan and urged the authorities to guarantee their protection.
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US deeply concerned for Afghan women, says NSA Jake Sullivan
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 18 (ANI): The US is deeply concerned for Afghan women and girls under the Taliban control, National Security Advisor (NSA) Jake Sullivan said on Tuesday as the terror group has been blamed for committing barbaric atrocities against women.
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Scores of refuge women sheltered in camp haunted by Taliban atrocities
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 12 (ANI): Hundreds of war-affected people in Afghanistan who have taken refuge in the Shomal Sarai area of Kabul are speaking up against Taliban atrocities and offences in the war-torn country.
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Afghan women in Los Angeles hold protest against Taliban's brutalities in
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 7 (ANI): Afghan women in Los Angeles held a protest against the Taliban's brutalities and crimes against humanity in Afghanistan as foreign forces are withdrawing from the war-torn country.
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Attacking envoy's daughter 'gross violation' of diplomatic norms, human ri
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 18 (ANI): Afghanistan women parliamentarian caucus has expressed "utmost despair" over the kidnapping and assault of the daughter of Afghan ambassador in Pakistan, saying there are recognised protocols if Islamabad wants to end ties, otherwise, attacking the envoy's
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Dark days return for Afghan women, Taliban re-imposes repressive laws in n
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 15 (ANI): After capturing new areas in Afghanistan, the Taliban has re-imposed repressive laws and retrograde policies on Afghan women that defined its 1996-2001 rule when they enforced their version of Islamic Sharia law.
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Consequences will be 'unbelievably bad': George Bush on US troops withdraw
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], July 14 (ANI): Former US President George W Bush has called the US drawdown from Afghanistan a "mistake" and said that the consequences of this decision, especially for Afghan women and girls, will be "unbelievably bad".
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