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Women should be included in future of Afghanistan: UN
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
As Afghan women continue to live miserable lives under Taliban rule, the United Nations (UN) UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous emphasized that women should be included in the future of Afghanistan, Khaama Press reported.
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Abu Dhabi Judiciary discusses mechanisms for international protection of w
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Participants at the Women's Empowerment and Role in Sustainable Development forum, organised by the Abu Dhabi Judicial Academy in association with the Human Rights Division, discussed a wide range of topics related to women's rights and empowerment.
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Voices of Afghan women silenced, dreams shattered: Amnesty International
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Amnesty International said that the voices of Afghan women and girls have been silenced and their dreams have been shattered adding that them from public life is a "crime against humanity."
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Afghanistan: Residents of Kunduz province criticise absence of schools in
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
The lack of schools in the district's remote areas has drawn concern from the people of Kunduz province's Qala-e-Zal district, as they called on the Taliban to solve the issue, reported TOLOnews.
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Afghanistan: Female shopkeepers in Balkh raise concerns about drop in sale
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Female shopkeepers in the Balkh province of Afghanistan have raised concerns amid a drop in sales in their business, according to TOLOnews.
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Afghanistan: Clerics call upon Taliban to reopen schools for girls above s
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
"We ask the Islamic Emirate government to let girls get an education in accordance with Sharia law," TOLOnews quoted Nasrullah Urfan, a religious cleric, as saying.
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Afghanistan: Presence of people in parks decreases as Taliban impose restr
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Amid the Taliban hardline regime and strict restrictions, there are much fewer people visiting parks in Afghanistan now, reported TOLOnews.
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Taliban intensify repression of Afghan women, girls: Human Rights Watch
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Human Rights Watch has said that on the one hand, the Taliban continue to beg for recognition and foreign help, while on the other, they escalate repression of Afghan women and girls, Khaama Press reported.
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Taliban policies 'discriminatory', aims at removal of Afghan women from al
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
As per the reports of Amnesty International, the harassment campaign of the Taliban to systematically repress Afghan women from the public sphere is a misogyny and the policy to remove women and girls from public life is ongoing throughout the country under the Taliban's de facto regime.
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Ban on Afghan women working for NGOs by Taliban disrupting humanitarian op
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Even while aid organisations are still on the ground providing millions of people with life-saving assistance, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said that the prohibition on Afghan women working for national and international NGOs had already hindered hum
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Amid lack of rights under Taliban, women activists call for 'inclusion' in
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
As Afghan women continue to suffer under the Taliban and are deprived of fundamental rights, some women activists in Afghanistan have called for 'inclusion' in social life and urged the de-facto authorities to let them work, TOLOnews reported.
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Sikh women in Pakistan continue to face marginalisation, violence
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
While women in India have made great progress since their participation, their counterparts in Pakistan continue to experience persecution, marginalisation, and violence, writes author Vaishali Sharma in Khalsa Vox.
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