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Afghanistan's Taliban orders NGOs to ban female employees from coming to work in latest crackdown on women's freedoms

Women's freedoms are further curtailed in Afghanistan, as the Taliban bans them from working for non-governmental organisations.

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Taliban orders NGOs to ban female employees from coming to work

Some women had not adhered to Islamic dresscode, the administration claimed

Evening Standard

Afghanistan protests: Taliban use water cannon on women opposing university ban

The country’s rulers faced backlash after ordering women to stop attending universities

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Taliban orders NGOs to send women workers home

Ban comes days after Taliban-run government ordered universities to suspend classes for women until further notice.

Al Jazeera

Taliban Orders All NGOs in Afghanistan to Forbid Female Employees From Working

Afghanistan's Taliban-run administration on Saturday ordered all local and foreign non-governmental organizations (NGO) to stop female employees from coming to work, according to an economy ministry letter, in the latest crackdown on women's freedoms. The letter, confirmed by economy ministry spokesperson Abdulrahman Habib, said the female employees were not allowed…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Taliban bans female NGO staff, jeopardizing aid efforts

Afghanistan's Taliban-run administration on Saturday ordered all local and foreign NGOs to stop female employees from working, in a move the United Nations said would hit humanitarian operations just as winter grips a country already in economic crisis.

Reuters

Serial killer Charles Sobhraj the Serpent arrives in France after being freed from jail

Serial killer Charles Sobhraj is believed to have killed at least 24 people in Afghanistan, India, Thailand, Turkey, Nepal, Iran and Hong Kong during the 1970s

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'Hugs, Screams and Cries': Afghan Women Anguished at University Ban

Women university students across Afghanistan were in disbelief on Wednesday, barred by the Taliban from studying and condemned to a life of feeling "like caged birds".

Asharq Al-Awsat

UN envoy calls for pressure on Taliban over women university ban

Gordon Brown urges more leaders in Islamic countries to denounce a move barring Afghan women from higher education.

Al Jazeera

Afghan crisis is a migration crisis

Afghanistan is facing a perfect storm of threats, and climate change is pushing it to breaking point. The world seems unaware of the coming catastrophe, writes Mujib Ahmad Azizi

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What does the Taliban’s ban on education mean for women and girls and how has the world reacted?

The Taliban has indefinitely banned women and girls from primary and higher education in measures that further curtail their rights.

Evening Standard

Family's heartbreak as dad tragically dies just weeks before baby daughter born

Nicki Hart, a soldier with the Fourth Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland, had been on tours abroad in places such as Afghanistan and Iraq. He was fond dead weeks before the birth of his baby

Daily Mirror

Edinburgh family-run restaurant claim top award just seven months after opening

Shinwari, on Lady Lawson Street, opened in April and specialise in delicacies from Pakistan and Afghanistan. This week, the owners celebrated winning New Business of the Year 2022 at the Scottish Asian Business Awards

Edinburgh Live

New details: Cuba spy soon to be freed was willing to divulge US war plans in Afghanistan

Ana Belén Montes, the convicted Cuba spy who is set to be released from prison in January, was willing to pass military secrets about the U.S. war in Afghanistan if requested by her spymasters in Havana, even if that resulted in the death of American soldiers on the ground, she…

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Taliban expels female teachers from some schools. So who will teach the girls?

Early this week, the leaders of Afghanistan declared that women could not attend university. Now there are fears the any education for girls is in jeopardy as some female teachers are sent home.

Al Jazeera

US warns Taliban of ‘costs’ over university ban for Afghan women

US secretary of state says Taliban is sentencing women and girls in Afghanistan to a ‘dark future without opportunity’.

Tribune News Service

Afghan men stand in support of women after Taliban college ban

More than a dozen male university teachers in Afghanistan have resigned and several male students walked out of their classrooms in support of female students who were forced out of higher education following a Taliban decree.

Reuters

Blinken calls on Afghan Taliban to reverse ban on women at universities

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday said that the Taliban are trying to sentence Afghanistan's women "to a dark future without opportunity" by banning them from attending universities.

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The Independent UK

Young men ‘three times more likely’ to be shot dead in two US cities than in Iraq or Afghanistan

Shocking findings put the risk of firearm-related death in perspective, sparking calls for urgent need for violence reduction policies

Reason

America's Loose Ends in the Middle East

They say the U.S. is pivoting to other conflicts, but the Pentagon hasn't exactly left the Middle East and North Africa behind.

Reuters

Taliban minister defends closing universities to women as global backlash grows

Afghanistan's Taliban-run administration said on Thursday it had closed universities to women partly due to female students not adhering to its interpretation of the Islamic dress code, in a decision that was condemned globally.

Radio France Internationale

France and allies condemn Taliban decision to ban women from universities

The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs led the international condemnation of the Taliban leadership in Afghanistan to ban women from accessing higher education. The United States, the United Nations and the United Kingdom have also expressed their concerns.

AAP

Taliban university ban on women condemned

Foreign Minister Penny Wong has declared solidarity with Afghan women after the Taliban moved to ban female students from universities.

The Independent UK

KidsOR to set up operating room in Afghanistan to help with ‘desperate need’

Kids Operating Room will open the theatre in Kabul’s Ataturk Children’s Hospital, the charity has announced.

Reuters

U.S., partners condemn Taliban decision to ban women from universities -statement

The United States, the European Union and 11 foreign ministers condemned the Taliban's decision to ban women from universities in Afghanistan, according to a joint statement issued on Wednesday.

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