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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 crimes against humanityThe international criminal court has issued arrest warrants for two senior Taliban leaders, accusing them of crimes agai…

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‘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 forbid them to work or travel without a male guardianWomen forced back to living under the Taliban’s increasingly repressive regime have spoken of …

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How refugees have helped save these midwestern cities: ‘That’s really something we celebrate’

In places like Dayton, Ohio, and Indianapolis, blighted neighborhoods and economies have been transformedAt a time in life when many are winding down, Gunash Akhmedova, aged 65, fulfilled a lifelong dream of opening her first business.A member of the A…

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Malala and Kiran faced violence, threats and shame. Now their fathers want ‘all men to stand with women’

Ziauddin Yousafzai and Ranjit appear in a new film in which they discuss fatherhood, courage, gender justice and bringing up strong daughtersThe day Ranjit’s daughter was born, he distributed sweets to the entire village – not just because he was thril…

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How ordinary men became unpaid Taliban enforcers in their own homes

Afghan fathers, brothers and husbands are under pressure to ensure the women in their families observe the country’s repressive laws. Here, men and women across the country explain how it is affecting family bondsTo be a father of daughters in the Tali…

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‘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 AfghanistanThree Afghan women who were brutally flogged in public by the Taliban after being accused of “moral crimes” have bravely spoken out about …

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Fleeing Taliban fighters, Ibrahim begs the country he helped – Australia – to save his family

Mohammed Ibrahim Danish spent four years as a translator for aid workers who taught children and trained doctors. In today’s Afghanistan the penalty for that is death Get our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastHuddled on Afghanista…

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