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The Taliban suspended the operation of Afghanistan’s only nationwide women’s radio station after raiding its premises on Tuesday, deepening the exclusion of women from public life and society ...
U.S. officials say they are racing to evacuate as many people from Afghanistan as possible before the end of the month, when America's 20-year military presence in the country is scheduled to end.
Taliban fighters also gathered in a diplomatic district of Kabul, outside the now-abandoned U.S. embassy compound, chanting "death to America" as they trampled a U.S. flag that had trailed from ...
Photographing, filming and displaying pictures of girls and women in newspapers, books, shops or the home was banned. [25] The modification of any place names that included the word "women". For example, "women's garden" was renamed "spring garden". [26] [4] Women were forbidden to appear on the balconies of their apartments or houses. [4]
Protests in Afghanistan held by Islamic democrats and feminists against the treatment of women by the Taliban began on 17 August 2021, following the fall of Kabul.Supported by the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan, the protesters also demanded decentralization, multiculturalism, social justice, [4] labor, education, and food. [5]
Farzana Wahidy (born 1984) is an Afghan documentary photographer and photojournalist.She has made photographs of women and girls in Afghanistan. She was the first female photographer in Afghanistan to work with international media agencies such as the Associated Press (AP) and Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Women workers under the Nato-led administration in Afghanistan were asked to go back to their homes in Kabul in September 2021, marking the first unofficial ban on women’s work. A senior Taliban ...
Bread and Roses follows the experiences of three women in the months following the fall of Afghanistan's capital city, Kabul: Zahra, a dentist whom the Taliban attempt to force to close her ...