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Taliban's ban on women working for NGOs in Afghanistan 'self-defeating': O
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Secretary-General Hissein Brahim Taha on Sunday expressed his "exacerbated concerns" over the Taliban's order banning women from working in all local and foreign non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Afghanistan. Taha described the ban on wome
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Former Afghanistan women's basketball team captain calls Taliban universit
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
In an exclusive interview with ANI, Nilofar, who fled from Afghanistan after the Taliban came into power, said, "Unfortunately, Taliban said that women are not allowed to go to universities any and we saw that girls couldn't enter the Universities. It is almost one and a half years that scho
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Afghanistan: Wardak residents urge Taliban to reopen schools for girls abo
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], October 2 (ANI): As human rights violations across the war-torn country continue under the Taliban regime, residents of Wardak province of Afghanistan called on the organization to reopen the schools for girls above grade six.
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Afghanistan women protest over death of Mahsa Amini
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 29 (ANI): Iran protests spread to Afghanistan as a number of women's rights activists staged a demonstration in front of the Iranian Embassy, to show their support for the women of Tehran.
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Over 100 women police officer rehired in Afghanistan's Badakhshan province
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 25 (ANI): Over 100 women police officers have been rehired in Afghanistan's Badakhshan province, as a ray of hope for women amid the grave challenges of human rights violations in the Taliban-led country.
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Activists in Turkey calls on world to focus on Afghan human rights
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 30 (ANI): A number of human rights activists in Turkey called on the international community to pay attention to women's rights, particularly girls' access to education, in Afghanistan.
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Freedom of religion under grim state since Taliban seized power in Afghani
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 25 (ANI): Since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, the country is facing a severe decline in religious freedom as the interim government has failed to safeguard religious minorities, a report by United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (US
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Afghanistan: Taliban clarifies restriction on women to visit public parks
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 22 (ANI): After attracting widespread criticism and concerns raised by Afghan women over the new rule to limit the entry of women in parks, the Taliban on Monday clarified that the imposition of the new rule to separate the visiting days for men and women is to
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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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Afghan women raise concern over Taliban's new rule to limit entry in "ladi
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 12 (ANI): Ever since the Taliban took over control of Afghanistan, large-scale and systematic gender-based discrimination and violence against women and girls has been ongoing in the country, which has apparently witnessed a downfall trend. Local women have expres
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Taliban broke multiple pledges on human rights since taking over Afghanist
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New York [US], August 11 (ANI): The Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday said the Taliban have broken multiple pledges to respect human rights and women's rights since taking over Afghanistan a year ago.
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Allegations that Ashraf Ghani fled Afghanistan with millions in cash may b
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 11 (ANI): The allegations that former Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani and his senior advisors fled aboard with millions in cash are unlikely to be true, according to a new report by the US government's oversight authority on Afghanistan.
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