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Future of women and girls in Afghanistan 'bleak', warn UN experts
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 13 (ANI): UN experts on Friday called on the international community yet again to restore the declining human rights situation in Afghanistan and warned that the future of the country is bleak for its women and girls.
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UN official visits Central Afghanistan's Bamyan Province
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 26 (ANI): As murders, and repression of women are on the rise in Afghanistan under Taliban, the Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Afghanistan, Markus Potzel, paid a visit to the central Afghan province of Bamyan, to meet the local authori
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Afghan women protest, demand reopening of schools after Taliban skips to d
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 4 (ANI): A group of women activists under the name of 'Kabul School of Critics' staged a protest demanding the Taliban to reopen schools for women without further delay, local media reported.
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Afghan grand assembly 'Loya Jirga' opens in Kabul, women debarred
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 30 (ANI): The first-ever 'Loya Jirga' or grand assembly of religious scholars and elders opened in Kabul on Thursday, Xinhua reported citing the Afghan caretaker government's chief spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid.
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Taliban force shopkeepers to install white flag in shop
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 15 (ANI): Taliban forces in Afghanistan's Kandahar city have compelled the shopkeepers to instal their group's white flag in their shops and buildings. Health clinics and public baths have too been asked to follow the suit.
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UNSC urges Taliban to reverse policies restricting Afghan women's freedom,
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 25 (ANI): United Nations Security Council on Tuesday urged the Taliban to reverse the policies restricting the human rights and fundamental rights of women and girls in Afghanistan.
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European Parliament strongly condemns education ban for girls
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], April 8 (ANI): The Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have expressed deep concern over the Taliban's recent decision to indefinitely extend the ban on allowing girls in seventh grade and above to attend school.
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UN alarmed by reversal of women's rights under Taliban rule
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], December 10 (ANI): United Nations is alarmed by the rapid reversal of Afghanistan women's rights under the Taliban's rule that began this year in August.
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'Taliban can't ignore our progress, struggles over past 20 years' , says w
Updated : 4 years, 9 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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