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Afghanistan: Female students calls for reopening schools, universities
Updated : 3 years ago IST
The students also noted that the country wouldn't benefit from the ban on women's education continuing, and they urged the Islamic Emirate to reopen schools and universities for females.
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Taliban ban on women work: Afghan staff to continue working from home, say
Updated : 3 years ago IST
The UN has 3,300 Afghan staff, of whom about 400 are female, while about 600 international staff in the country are not affected by the ban. The UN had said it would review its operations and keep Afghan staff home until May 5.
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Afghanistan: Security Council condemns Taliban's ban on women working for
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Since the Taliban takeover in July 2021, it has rolled back a wide range of human rights of women and girls, including a ban on attending high school and university, restrictions on movement and work, and in December, a decree banning female nationals from working from most NGOs.
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EU binds aid with removal of ban on Afghan working women by Taliban
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
EU said that the ban on women working for UN organizations violates international law and that aid to Afghanistan cannot be delivered regardless of gender, aid activities will be reconsidered.
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As repression of Afghan women goes on under Taliban, global community urge
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
As the Taliban's continued repression of women in the nation, Nasir Ahmad Andisha, Afghanistan's permanent representative to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, criticised the Taliban's ban on women and girls attending school and called for women in Afghanistan to be given access to educa
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Ban on women's education in Afghanistan increases risk of gender-based vio
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
In a statement, the UN said, "In recognition of the ideals and principles and the Commission on the Status of Women, and recalling the commitments made during International Women's Day on March 8th, we wish to express our strong concerns about the weakening of respect for the rights of women
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Taliban replacing civil laws with Islamic ones
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Taliban has gutted the country's justice system by scrapping the constitution and replacing the legal code with rules based on a draconian interpretation of Islamic law.
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US envoy criticises Taliban's ban on women's education, urges global bodie
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The United Nations (UN) Representative for UN Management and Reform, Chris Lu criticised the Taliban-imposed ban on Afghan women's education and employment as the females in the country still face challenges to live a normal life, according to TOLOnews.
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Taliban detains Afghan educator for protest over ban on women's education
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Taliban on Friday detained an Afghan professor for protesting against the organization's hardline regime which banned education for women in the country, Al Jazeera reported.
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OIC asks Taliban to reconsider ban on women from working for NGOs
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The statement was issued by OIC in its final communique of the Extraordinary Meeting of the OIC Executive Committee on "The Recent Developments and the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan."
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Afghans concerned over crisis in health sector due to ban on women working
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The local residents of Ghor Province, Afghanistan have warned that if the Taliban-led Health Ministry keeps ignoring the ongoing crisis in the healthcare sector in Ghor province the patients will die. The already critical situation has worsened due to the Taliban's ban on women working as th
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UN asks Taliban to lift bans on female education, work for aid agencies
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Last month, the Taliban imposed a restriction on female higher education and a ban on women from working in humanitarian nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Human rights experts described these two measures as a major blow to vulnerable communities, women, children, and the entire country.
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