Women under the Taliban
- Afghanistan, Global development, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women under the Taliban, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
The secret Afghan women’s book club defying the Taliban to read Orwell
Banned from education, a clandestine reading circle meets every week to pore over novels by Abbas Maroufi, Zoy…
- Afghanistan, Education, Faith schools, Gender, Global education, Islam, Religion, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women under the Taliban, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
‘Send your daughters or you get no aid’: the Taliban are making religious schools girls’ only option
Food handouts and employment are increasingly tied to Afghan families’ agreement to strict Islamic educationWh…
- Afghanistan, Beauty, Gender, Global development, Human rights, Life and style, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, Women under the Taliban, World news
Taliban launch crackdown on Afghanistan’s secret beauty salons
The clandestine businesses – a financial lifeline for many women – have been given a month to cease operations…
- Afghanistan, Beauty, Gender, Global development, Human rights, Life and style, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, Women under the Taliban, World news
Taliban launch crackdown on Afghanistan’s secret beauty salons
The clandestine businesses – a financial lifeline for many women – have been given a month to cease operations…
- Afghanistan, Gender, Global development, Iran, Middle East and North Africa, Migration and development, Refugees, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, Women under the Taliban, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Jobless, homeless and helpless without a man: Afghan women expelled by Iran into hands of the Taliban
Those who fled Afghanistan fearing gender apartheid have been forced back to live in a society in which, witho…
- Afghanistan, Global development, International criminal court, International criminal justice, Law, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Violence against women and girls, Women under the Taliban, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
ICC issues warrant for Taliban’s supreme leader for persecution of women
Rights activists hail move to arrest Haibatullah Akhundzada and Afghan chief justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani for c…
- Afghanistan, Global development, Refugees, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women under the Taliban, World news
‘They threw us out like garbage’: Iran rushes deportation of 4 million Afghans before deadline
Thousands of lone women forced to return face extreme repression and destitution under Taliban laws that forbi…
- Afghanistan, Corporal punishment, Global development, Human rights, Islam, Law, Religion, Sharia law, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, Women under the Taliban, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
‘Whipped in front of everyone’: three women on being flogged by the Taliban
Hundreds of women forced to confess to ‘moral crimes’ they did not commit have been publicly lashed in Afghani…
- Afghanistan, Global development, Global health, Human rights, Law, Society, South and Central Asia, Women under the Taliban, Women's health, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
‘I begged them, my daughter was dying’: how Taliban male escort rules are killing mothers and babies
The need for women to be accompanied by a man in public is blocking access to healthcare and contributing to s…