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Women wearing burqas at a market in Kabul in September 2021, one month after the Taliban seized control for the second time.. The treatment of women by the Taliban refers to actions and policies by two distinct Taliban regimes in Afghanistan which are either specific or highly commented upon, mostly due to discrimination, since they first took control in 1996.
A United Nations expert said on Monday that the Taliban's treatment of Afghan women and girls could amount to gender apartheid as their rights continue to be gravely infringed by the country's de ...
Afghan women cannot be heard in public, even if it is to offer prayers, and have been banned from schools, workplaces, salons, gyms and national parks under the current Taliban rule. Arpan Rai reports
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 ...
Women in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan are currently prohibited from going to a salon, working out at the gym, and even speaking or praying in public. Within a month of claiming Kabul, the Taliban’s ...
[2] [8] The Taliban retained her family's house documents to ensure she would not defy their authority in the future. [8] She left Afghanistan on her family's persuasion and then lived in Pakistan. In September 2023 she joined a group of women who started a hunger strike that lasted for ten days to protest the treatment of women in Afghanistan.
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.
Activists say the rules, which the Taliban claims will prevent women from tempting men, set a new low bar for the group’s treatment of Afghan women and girls