カテゴリー: Taliban
Security council’s rare display of unity adds pressure after most aid groups in Afghanistan suspend servicesFaint hopes exist that the Taliban may relax its ban on all women working for the non-governmental aid agencies in Afghanistan after the UN secu…
UN body ‘deeply alarmed’ by women and girls being kicked out of high schools, universities, NGO jobs and government positionsThe UN security council has called on the Taliban to reverse policies targeting women and girls in Afghanistan, expressing alar…
At least seven international NGOs have suspended aid, saying they cannot work without female staffThe acting head of the UN mission in Afghanistan met Taliban leaders on Monday in a bid to persuade them to withdraw their ban on all women working for ai…
Female employees of NGOs told to stop coming to work in latest move to curtail women’s freedoms in AfghanistanAfghanistan’s Taliban-run administration has ordered all local and foreign non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to stop female employees from…
Neda Mohammad Nadeem says ban was necessary to prevent mixing of genders as rare protests break outThe minister of higher education in Afghanistan’s Taliban government has defended his decision to ban women from universities – a decree that triggered a…
People have marched outside Kabul University in Afghanistan’s capital against the Taliban’s decision to ban female students from university. Women marched the streets shouting ‘everyone or no one’ after the ban was announced by the higher education min…
In today’s newsletter: The Taliban have barred half the population from higher education – but it’s just one of many injustices women now face in the countrySign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning. On Tuesday, the Taliban annou…
A protest broke out at a university in the eastern city of Jalalabad, Afghanistan, following the Taliban’s decision to ban female students from higher education. Men and women held signs and chanted outside the school on the day the ban started. The de…
Taliban prohibit female higher education indefinitely amid international condemnationIt was late evening in Kabul, and Sabra*, a fourth-year medical student, saw a WhatsApp message appear on her phone. In a university chat group for 38 classmates, a fr…
Higher education ministry issues indefinite order three months after thousands sat entrance examsAfghanistan’s Taliban rulers have ordered an indefinite ban on university education for the country’s women, the ministry of higher education said in a let…
Counter-terrorism officer killed after militants seize compound in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinceTaliban detainees overpowered their guards at a counter-terrorism centre in north-western Pakistan overnight, snatching police weapons, taking hostages and se…
Man accused of fatal stabbing in 2017 executed by victim’s father before senior officialsThe Taliban put to death a man accused of murder in western Afghanistan, its spokesperson said on Wednesday, in the first officially confirmed public execution sin…
Those who risked their lives helping British government face a ‘toxic combination of incompetence and indifference’Afghan nationals who were promised resettlement to the UK nearly a year ago are facing torture and death while they wait for a response f…
Government watchdog says £3.5bn aid in 20 years to 2020 failed to achieve aim of stabilising Afghan governmentThe UK’s £3.5bn aid to Afghanistan between 2000 and 2020 was implicated in corruption and human rights abuses and failed to achieve its primar…
Public executions and amputations some of the punishments for crimes including adultery and theftAfghanistan’s supreme leader has ordered judges to fully implement aspects of Islamic law that include public executions, stonings, floggings and the amput…