Life for Afghan women under the Taliban flag
The Taliban have issued nearly forty decrees and orders related to controlling the behaviour and movement of women in the 15 months since they took power.
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A young woman shot dead in Balkh
Unknown gunmen shot dead a young girl in district 9 of Mazar-e-Sharif today afternoon, November 28, local sources say.
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Life for Afghan women under the Taliban flag
The Taliban have issued nearly forty decrees and orders related to controlling the behaviour and movement of women in the 15 months since they took power.
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Q&A with Richard Bennet, UN Special Rapporteur: There are no signs that the Taliban will change their policies regarding women
The purpose of your trip to Afghanistan is to document the crimes committed by the Taliban in the country; what is really happening in Afghanistan. In other words, how serious the human rights situation is in Afghanistan under the rule of the Taliban?
‘Our thoughts are with you,’ British retired teacher’s message to Afghan women
We need to create a plan to help us fight back. It may be a long time before we can claim what is ours, but the first thing we must do is to hope and dream.
Excluding women and girls from education and from the workplace is madness
Dear Afghan sisters history has not been kind to you. You have had a few heroines in the past, and most of them succeeded in life by marrying the right man. Nur Jahan did good work, but had the advantage of a powerful husband.
The Taliban cannot kill the spirit of Afghan girls and women
I pay taxes and vote in the US and feel complicit in the tragedy that has unfolded over the last 21 years, and I am truly sorry for that.
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Life for Afghan women under the Taliban flag
The Taliban have issued nearly forty decrees and orders related to controlling the behaviour and movement of women in the 15 months since they took power.
Taliban violence extends to hospitals; from demanding priority and imposing restrictions to beating doctors
Dr. Dawood* was treating a patient in the Abu Ali Sinai Balkhi seminary hospital in the Mazar-e-Sharif city about a month ago when a Taliban man entered the hospital with his wife who had a head wound. It was one o’clock in the morning. Dr. Dawood’s patient had been in a traffic accident and had a traumatic head injury that...
