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A Taliban representative stated: "The Taliban's act of giving monthly salaries to 30,000 job-free women, now sitting comfortably at home, is a whiplash in the face of those who are defaming Taliban with reference to the rights of women. These people through baseless propaganda are trying to incite the women of Kabul against the Taliban". [3]
Children playing outside would alert the group if the religious police approached, giving them time to hide their books and pick up sewing equipment. Herat may have been the most oppressed area under the Taliban, according to Christina Lamb , author of The Sewing Circles of Herat , because it was a cultured city and mostly Shi'a , both of which ...
Afghan women feel scared or unsafe leaving their homes alone because of Taliban decrees and enforcement campaigns on clothing and male guardians, according to a report from the U.N. mission in ...
The Taliban retook control of Afghanistan and toppled its government almost immediately following the U.S.' withdrawal, re-establishing a regime that severely restricts women's rights under a ...
Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers on Saturday ordered all Afghan women to wear head-to-toe clothing in public — a sharp, hard-line pivot that confirmed the worst fears of rights activists and was ...
Bread and Roses is a 2023 American documentary film about women in Afghanistan and the role of the Taliban.It was directed and produced by Sahra Mani. It was co-produced by Jennifer Lawrence and Justine Ciarrocchi for their company Excellent Cadaver after Lawrence saw news coverage of the 2021 Taliban offensive as U.S. troops withdrew.
Some women said that male relatives were also afraid and reluctant to leave the home with female relatives, as this would expose them to Taliban harassment. A spokesman from the Vice and Virtue Ministry, the Taliban's morality police that enforces such decrees, said it was “nonsense and untrue” that women are scared to go to the shops.
Nayera Kohistani is an Afghan women's rights activist. She lived through the first Taliban rule in her country. She was a protester when they came to power again. She left the country in 2022 after being imprisoned and she is a prominent protester against the "gender apartheid" and criminalisation of gender in Afghanistan.