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Afghanistan: Taliban clarifies restriction on women to visit public parks
Updated : 3 years, 6 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, 7 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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B'luru: Women's rights activist slams PC George's comment on rape survivor
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], August 13 (ANI): Women rights activist Brinda Adige slammed former MLA from Kerala PC George for his derogatory comments on a rape survivor and said the leader's party's inaction has resulted in his arrogant behaviour.
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Parl panel wants 'illegitimate' child reference removed, law on guardiansh
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 8 (ANI): A Parliamentary Committee has raised strong objection to the term 'illegitimate' being used in the Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act (HMGA) and suggested the government omit the word, "as no child is illegitimate, asserting that "the law should be the sam
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UN official visits Central Afghanistan's Bamyan Province
Updated : 3 years, 7 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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Biden, Saudi Crown Prince discuss Afghan women's rights
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 17 (ANI): US President Joe Biden who visited Saudi Arabia this week as part of his first Middle East trip as commander-in-chief discussed and analysed Afghan women's rights, which have been badly curtailed since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, with Saudi Ar
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Taliban's policies keeping 'sanctions in place': US envoy
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 6 (ANI): The US special envoy has said there is no reason that girls should not be in school in Afghanistan as she blamed the Taliban's "policies against the Afghan population" for the continuing sanctions on the country.
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Afghanistan: Taliban detained former military officer, says family
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 4 (ANI): The family of a former military officer of the Afghan Defense Ministry, Layiq Saifi said that he is still incommunicado, 24 days after the Taliban detained him.
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Afghan women protest, demand reopening of schools after Taliban skips to d
Updated : 3 years, 8 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, 8 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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Men will represent women at religious gathering: Taliban
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 30 (ANI): Ahead of the religious scholars' grand gathering of Taliban, the deputy Prime Minister of the Taliban, Mawlawi Abdul Salam Hanafi announced on Wednesday that the meeting will convene without the participation of women.
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Pak police female constable raped by colleague
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Dadu [Pakistan], June 25 (ANI): Amid an alarming rise in sexual assault cases against women in Pakistan, another incident came to light where a female police constable was raped by her male colleague.
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