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3 foreign NGOs stop work in Afghanistan after Taliban ban on women staff

25 Dec 2022

Three foreign aid groups, including Save the Children, announced on Sunday they were suspending their operations in Afghanistan after the Taliban ordered all NGOs to stop their women staff...

Taliban order local, foreign NGOs to ban female employees from coming to work

24 Dec 2022

Afghanistan's Taliban-run administration on Saturday ordered all local and foreign non-governmental organisations (NGO) to stop female employees from coming to work, according to an economy ministry letter, in the...

Turkey, Saudi decry Taliban university ban for women; several Afghan cricketers show solidarity

22 Dec 2022

Turkey and Saudi Arabia became the latest Muslim-majority countries to condemn a decision by Taliban authorities to bar women from universities, while about two dozen women staged a protest...

UAE condemns Taliban's decision to ban girls from higher education

21 Dec 2022

Ambassador Lana Nusseibeh, Assistant Minister for Political Affairs and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, reiterated the UAE’s strong condemnation of the most recent decision by the Taliban to...

'Hugs, screams and cries:' Afghan women anguished at university ban

21 Dec 2022

Female university students in Afghanistan were turned away from campuses on Wednesday after the Taliban-run administration said women would be suspended from tertiary education. The decision to bar women...

Banned from education, 'idle' teen girls are married off in Afghanistan

12 Nov 2022

Thirteen-year-old Zainab should have been shopping for a new school uniform this autumn but, with no prospect of girls' schools reopening in Afghanistan, she was instead forced to pick...

A year in Afghanistan after return of Taliban

16 Aug 2022

It was exactly a year ago that the American forces and the rest of the Nato forces packed their bags and left Kabul in undignified haste, and the Taliban walked...

Taliban torn over reforms one year after seizing power

10 Aug 2022

One year on from the Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan, some cracks are opening within their ranks over the crucial question of just how much reform their leaders...

VIDEO: Afghan women TV presenters vow to fight after order to cover faces

23 May 2022

Women presenters on Afghanistan's leading news channels went on air on Sunday with their faces covered, a day after defying a Taliban order to conceal their appearance on television....

Afghan women players make football debut in Australia

24 Apr 2022

Players from Afghanistan's national women's football team competed in a local league match in Australia on Sunday for the first time since fleeing the hardline Taliban. The result was...

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