Poverty and Culture: Some Women in Afghanistan Aborted Their Female Fetuses
Agency of France-Press (AFP) has reported that due to the cultural and economic conditions in Afghanistan, some women in the...
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United Nations: Women and girls with disabilities in Afghanistan face severe discrimination
Susan Ferguson, the UN Women Country Representative for Afghanistan, says that women and girls with disabilities in Afghanistan face 'severe...
HRW: Taliban Violating Women’s Rights in Herat by Imposing the Burqa
Human Rights Watch says the Taliban in Herat are violating women’s rights by forcing them to wear the burqa, a...
Taliban Offer Education to Male Prisoners but Not to Free Women
While the UN reports that 2.2 million Afghan girls are barred from schooling beyond the primary level, the Taliban are...
Bennett: The Taliban Must End Discrimination Against Afghanistan’s Ethnic Groups
Richard Bennett, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Afghanistan, has stated that the Taliban discriminate against Afghanistan’s ethnic,...
Former Health Worker: Many Women Have Taken Their Own Lives Because of Taliban Policies
Azada, an Afghan woman who testified online during the “People’s Tribunal for Women in Afghanistan,” said she previously worked as...
Taliban to Lift Girls’ Education Ban “Soon,” Says Bangladeshi Cleric
Mamunul Haque, a religious scholar and head of Bangladesh’s “Majlis-e-Khilafat” party—who recently visited Kabul with six other Bangladeshi clerics—says the...
France Condemns Taliban’s Systematic Abuse of Women’s Rights
France on Friday (September 25) condemned what it called the Taliban’s “structured violations” of the rights of women and girls...
28 Groups Urge Global Backing for Taliban Accountability Push
On the first anniversary of the decision by Australia, Germany, Canada, and the Netherlands to pursue accountability for the Taliban’s...
UN Women: Afghans Overwhelmingly Back Girls’ Education
The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women said at a press briefing in Geneva that...