Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
WHILE the issue of recognition of the Afghan Taliban remains pending, a humanitarian crisis is looming: the dilemma of the virtually stateless people of Afghanistan, especially women, is not limited to food or medicine shortages. Their existential crisis actually emanates from the Taliban’s (...)
Taliban forces on Sunday fired pepper spray at a group of women protesters in Afghanistan’s capital demanding rights to work and education, three demonstrators told AFP.
Since seizing control of the country by force in August, the Taliban authorities have imposed creeping restrictions on (...)
As an Iranian woman, I understood the fear and oppression facing Afghan women. I had to tell their stories to the world
I crossed the border into Afghanistan from Iran one month after the Taliban seized Kabul. I could no longer handle reading, sharing posts or retweeting news about (...)
The Taliban’s takeover of power after the United States’ brutal twenty-year imperialist occupation is a catastrophe for women not only in Afghanistan but throughout the world.
It is true that world powers often close their eyes to atrocities against women, including most recently the rape and (...)
Protest in solidarity with Afghan women in New York City on September 25.
It is difficult to catch up with old friends these days, whether it’s meeting them or calling them up. Life in Kabul, as well as outside of Kabul, is on a stand still since the Taliban occupation.
Women largely stay at (...)
The Taliban last week announced that all male students and male teachers should be present in schools from Saturday, September 18. The statement of the Education Ministry did not mention girls’ education.
In response to the announcement, a Twitter user under the name of “From the Afghan women” (...)
War hawks constantly cite women’s liberation in support of the US occupation of Afghanistan. That’s transparent hypocrisy: during the Cold War, the US supported patriarchal fundamentalists against a party dedicated to advancing the cause of Afghan women.
The entire US political class is shedding (...)
Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan on August 15, they have tried to display a moderate face. But, as each day passes, their true nature surfaces.
Afghanistan. Women protesting the Taliban on September 8. Photo supplied.
The Taliban claim to have changed in their point of view towards (...)
Spokesman says men ‘mistreated the women and a reporter’ but tells Afghans it is ‘not a time for protest’.
The Taliban have arrested four men who hit protesters and held journalists at gunpoint to break up a women’s rights’ demonstration in Kabul on Saturday, the spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said. (...)
There are signs of a return to something worryingly close to the hardline restrictions of the past across Afghan life.
When Taliban fighters moved into Herat city in western Afghanistan last month, one thing mattered more to some of them than the battle itself. As gunmen faced off around the (...)
The takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban has undoubtedly put women’s lives in danger and threatened their human rights in new ways. But if we want to help, we need to first understand that Afghan women’s lives were challenging long before the takeover.
The threat of violence has long been a (...)
Ms. Yousafzai, who survived a Taliban assassination attempt, is an activist for girls’ education and the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
In the past two decades, millions of Afghan women and girls received an education. Now the future they were promised is dangerously close to (...)
October 21, 2020
From: Women of Afghanistan
To: Civil Society Leaders and Human Rights Defenders in the Region
Subject: Let’s Stand Together For Our Common Values and Prosperity
Fellow Leaders of Our Region,
In the last two years, efforts have been underway to end the conflict in (...)
Photo: February 2013 women’s march in Kabul, via RFE/RL
The US government’s announcement that it has opened negotiations with the Taliban to help bring the war in Afghanistan to an end should be a source of concern for women’s rights advocates everywhere. While it’s still not easy to be a woman in (...)
19-year-old Rokhshana was accused of trying to elope with another man but was arrested, tried and executed in a Taliban-controlled area.
[Photo: Radio Liberty: A still from a video purporting to show the execution of 19-year-old Rokhshana, who was accused of trying to elope with another man] (...)
The following is the official statement of the Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) international solidarity network and its partners in Afghanistan, which is addressed to all parties, particularly Afghanistan’s donor countries, who are supporting the direct talks between the Taliban and (...)
This is a personal story, and it’s hard to tell because nobody knows how it will end. I first went to Afghanistan in 2002, where I volunteered with two small nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) staffed by Afghan women: widows, university students, teachers. I’ve gone back to Afghanistan to work (...)
(Reuters) - Muzhgan Masoomi’s attacker stabbed her 14 times with a thick blade used to slaughter animals, tearing wide gashes in her flesh before leaving the government worker for dead on the outskirts of the Afghan capital.
With a severe limp and no control over her bladder - caused by the (...)
Afghanistan: Hundreds of Women, Girls in Jail for ’Moral Crimes’ says HRW
Human Rights Watch: Government Should Target Abusers, Not Victims
(Kabul) March 28, 2012 – The Afghan government should release the approximately 400 women and girls imprisoned in Afghanistan for “moral crimes,” Human (...)
I have been working on women’s human rights for many years, most recently with the Centre for Secular Space . I wrote a blog about this , but what good is a blog?
Seeing Peace Unveiled on PBS [[http://www.pbs.org/wnet/women-war-and-peace/full-episodes/peace-unveiled] and hearing that Afghan (...)
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