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Facing critical human rights challenges, Afghanistan at a crossroads, says
Updated : 38 min ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 27 (ANI): The newly appointed Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, said today the country faced serious human rights challenges and urged the de facto authorities to take the path that brings stability and freedom to al
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UNSC urges Taliban to reverse policies restricting Afghan women's freedom,
Updated : 1 day, 2 hours ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 25 (ANI): United Nations Security Council on Tuesday urged the Taliban to reverse the policies restricting the human rights and fundamental rights of women and girls in Afghanistan.
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Taliban leadership has zero credibility for Women's rights: Human Rights W
Updated : 5 days, 16 hours ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 21 (ANI): Associate women's rights director and former senior Afghanistan researcher at Human Rights Watch, Heather Barr, highlighted Taliban's vicious remarks against Afghan women, calling out the organization's growing atrocities, in a tweet on Friday.
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Afghanistan: TV presenters to cover faces, Taliban issue another decree
Updated : 1 week ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 19 (ANI): In another new decree on Thursday, the Taliban directed all-female presenters working on all TV channels to cover their faces while presenting programs, TOLOnews tweeted.
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UNSC to hold discussion on Taliban's new order for Afghan women to cover f
Updated : 2 weeks, 1 day ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 11 (ANI): As the Taliban's recent decision to impose additional restrictions on women, including the mandate that they cover their faces in public places, the United Nations Security Council will hold a meeting to discuss the issue on May 12 at the request of Norway
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European Parliament strongly condemns education ban for girls
Updated : 1 month, 2 weeks ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], April 8 (ANI): The Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have expressed deep concern over the Taliban's recent decision to indefinitely extend the ban on allowing girls in seventh grade and above to attend school.
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Reopening of schools for girls in Afghanistan might lead to discord within
Updated : 1 month, 2 weeks ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 7 (ANI): US special envoy for human rights and Afghan women and girls Rina Amiri has said that the reopening of schools for girls above the sixth grade in Afghanistan might lead to discord within the Taliban leadership, reported local media.
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Ex-Afghan legislator Mariam Solaimankhil calls Taliban 'proxy of Pakistan'
Updated : 3 months ago IST
London [UK], February 25 (ANI): Former woman Afghan MP, Mariam Solaimankhil, representing Kuchis and Nomads said that the Taliban is a "proxy of Pakistan" and they do not represent any particular ethnicity or locality in Afghanistan.
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Pakistan preaching India when women rights in its own country squashed
Updated : 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], February 23 (ANI): Pakistan's Aurat March demonstrates that many in Pakistan who are criticizing India over the Hijab row are themselves desperate about what women should wear in public.
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'Imran Khan fears global pushback if Pakistan becomes first country to rec
Updated : 3 months, 1 week ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], February 15 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is wary of adverse international pressure if Pakistan becomes the first country in the world to recognise the Taliban's interim government in Afghanistan, stating that good ties with the global community are necessar
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Afghanistan: Freed women rights activists under pressure to not share deta
Updated : 3 months, 1 week ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], February 14 (ANI): Four Afghanistan women activists, who were detained by the Taliban regime and later released after a long period of uncertainty, are under pressure not to publicize the details about their detention, their relatives have told local media.
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After arresting some activists, Taliban members continue threaten, intimid
Updated : 3 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Washington [US], February 9 (ANI): The Taliban members continue to threaten and harass women activists to intimidate them after arresting some women activists recently, according to a media report.
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