Only a month after coming to power, the Taliban government disbanded the Ministry of Women’s Affairs (MoWA) and replaced it by what they called a ministry for the “propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice”.
Rina Amiri was appointed by the United States as an envoy to defend the rights of Afghan women. She is an Afghan-born US scholar who is an expert in mediation and a lot of experience in Afghan diplomacy matters.
Amiri is an Afghan-born US scholar and an expert in mediation. She served at the US State Department under the former President of US Barack Obama.
The Taliban’s depreciating economy is forcing fathers to sell their young daughters to older men. A young Afgan child bride, Parwana Malik has just been rescued by an organisation, Too Young To Wed.
The death of activist and professor Frozan Safi in Afghanistan is being seen by many in the country as a sign of pushback against women’s rights under the Taliban regime.
Afghans, particularly women, have been vocal in dissenting against the Taliban’s policies that, so far, have kept them out of consideration for equal participation in public life.
Afghan Women and Taliban: Women are still oppressed and the cruellest examples of this oppression was seen when the Taliban captured Afghanistan. The faces of women on hoardings were painted black. Women cannot step out of their homes unaccompanied, they have been barred from offices and the university. Whips and sticks are being used against […]
“Afghanistan national (TV) will not broadcast the @IPL as usual as it was reportedly banned to live the matches resumed tonight due to possible anti-islam contents, girls dancing & the attendance of barred (sic) hair women in the (stadium) by Islamic Emirates of the Taliban.”
As per reports, some schools have managed to operate lately where girls up to Class 6 and attended classed and some women have been able to go to universities but high schools have not seen female students.
The new sign on the former women’s ministry read “Ministries of Prayer and Guidance and Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice”,
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