Muslim World Asked to Voice for Afghan Women’s Rights
Saturday 27 Aug 2022 05:00 WIB Rep: Umar Mukhtar/ Red: Agung Sasongko X Afghan women wait to receive food rations distributed by a Saudi humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, […]
‘The Taliban don’t know how to govern’: the Afghan women shaping global policy from exile
Despite the upheaval of the Taliban takeover, the ‘group of six’ are finding ways to tackle the political and humanitarian crisis Supported by About this content Rosie Swash and Ruchi KumarThu 25 Aug 2022 06.30 BST It has been described as Afghanistan’s brain drain, after the Taliban’s return to power last year precipitated an […]
The librarian who defied the Taliban
Published1 day ago bbc.com Wahida Amiri worked as an ordinary librarian before the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan last August. But when the militants started to strip women of their rights, […]
Taliban crackdown on rights is ‘suffocating’ women: Amnesty
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS ISLAMABAD JUL 27, 2022 – DAILY SABAH Afghan women chant and hold signs of protest during a demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 26, 2022. (AP Photo) The lives […]
UN human rights chief decries suppression of women in Afghanistan
BY AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE – AFP GENEVA JUN 15, 2022 – An Afghan girl reads a book inside her home in Kabul, Afghanistan, June 13, 2022. (Reuters Photo) The United Nations human […]
Afghan women disenfranchised and removed from public life
ZAID M. BELBAGI April 14, 2022 Short Url https://arab.news/vtrr5 The Taliban’s effortless takeover of Kabul last summer perplexed many as, after two decades out of power, the militant group initially […]
Betrayed in Afghanistan
Betrayed in Afghanistan Rafia Zakaria Published March 30, 2022 IT turns out, to the surprise of no one, that the Afghan Taliban haven’t changed after all. Last week, they announced that […]
‘I was born here, I’ll be buried here’: In Afghanistan to stay
Why one Afghan woman refuses to leave her home – even in the face of fear and uncertainty, as the Taliban resumes control. By Nadima 26 Aug 2021 Aljazeera. Listen to […]
Afghans hope for end to power vacuum as Taliban prepare to announce government
A man on his bicycle rides past a convoy of Taliban fighters patrolling along a street in Kabul on Thursday. The Taliban are preparing to unveil their new government. (AFP) […]
Women in rare protest as Taliban outline new government
Defiant female protesters said they were willing to accept the burqa if their daughters could still go to school under Taliban rule. (AFP) Short Url https://arab.news/pg8mx Protesters: “We are even […]
‘Afghan American Idol’ won by a woman for the first time
An Afghan woman has become the first to win a popular singing competition, with her victory coming as fears grow that women could lose hard-won rights if the US does a peace deal with the Taliban. Zahra Elham, in her 20s and from Afghanistan’s Hazara ethnic minority, snatched first place […]
Thanks to this Afghan woman, 6,000 imams have taken gender-sensitivity training
Source: The Christian Science Monitor By Maija Liuhto, Contributor Jamila Afghani, who has battled discrimination since childhood, uses Islam to empower women in Afghanistan. She is committed to continuing the […]