Afghan Women

The Taliban say they will close all NGOs employing Afghan women

AP — The Taliban say they will close all national and foreign nongovernmental groups in Afghanistan employing women, the latest crackdown on women’s rights since they took power in August 2021. The announcement comes two years after they told NGOs to suspend the employment of Afghan women, allegedly because they didn’t wear the Islamic headscarf …

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Egypt Independent January 2, 2025

Two years on from Taliban takeover, Afghan women are being ‘erased from everything’

CNN — When Zahra thinks back to her life before the summer of 2021, it seems like another reality. As a student in Afghanistan, she had “lots of friends.” “We were happy together,” she recalled. “We were studying, sometimes we were gathering together … we were riding bikes.” Zahra, 20, doesn’t ride bikes anymore. Or …

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Egypt Independent September 1, 2024