By Asma Saayin in ToloNews, Aug 18, 2023 at 10:50 PMThe last round of the current solar year’s university entrance exam (Kankor) was held in Kabul on Friday, but without the participation of girls. The National Examination Authority (NEXA) said that the entrance exam was held in Kabul for one day and fifteen thousand graduates of the twelfth grade participated in the exam. “The exam successfully ended and no problems occurred. This year, many facilities…
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report in Khaama Press online, Aug 11, 2023Human Rights Watch (HRW) condemned the imposition of restrictions placed upon women in Afghanistan. In a recent report, Human Rights Watch (HRW) highlighted that Afghan women have been deprived of their fundamental rights to education, employment, and social participation ever since the Taliban took power. “Over the past two years, Taliban authorities have denied women and girls their rights to education, work, movement, and assembly. The Taliban have…
By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press online, July 24, 2023Former President Hamid Karzai and Raffaella Lodice, the EU envoy in Afghanistan, met to discuss the critical issue of education in Afghanistan, particularly for women and girls. Karzai pleaded with the EU diplomat to advance education in the country. Since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, they have imposed several suppressive policies and practices by which girls and women are barred from attending schools beyond sixth…
By Rohullah Sangar in TOLOnews, June 24, 2023 at 9:25 PMSome religious clerics in Parwan province asked the Islamic Emirate to reopen schools for girls above the sixth grade. These religious clerics stressed the need for modern science education in addition to religious instruction during the opening ceremony of a religious school. “We ask the Islamic Emirate government to let girls get an education in accordance with Sharia law,” said Nasrullah Urfan, a religious cleric.…
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, June 19, 2023A UN expert said on Monday that the Taliban’s treatment of Afghan women and girls may amount to gender apartheid, given how severely the de facto authorities of the country continue to violate their rights. Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, expressed similar concerns on the opening day of the Council’s summer session, adding that the de facto authorities had “dismantled the most…
By Banafsha Binesh in TOLOnews, June 16, 2023 at 10:53 PMA report authored by the UN special rapporteur for Afghanistan Richard Bennett, and the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls, indicated “widespread and systematic discrimination to which women and girls in Afghanistan are subjected.” According to the report, between September 2021 and May 2023, more than 50 edicts were issued regarding women and girls by the Islamic Emirate, which has “deprived Afghan women…
By Banafsha Binesh in ToloNews, June 14, 2023 at 9:20 PMParticipants at the meeting in Oslo, Norway on the Afghan situation stressed the need for the formation of an inclusive government in Afghanistan and discussed the Islamic Emirate’s commitments to the international community as well as the education of girls, a source told TOLOnews. The second day of the meeting was held on Wednesday, and members of the Islamic Emirate were in attendance. The UN…
By Nizamuddin Rezahi in Khaama Press, June 1, 2023The head of the women’s rights division at Human Rights Watch said, on the one hand, the Taliban are persistently pleading for recognition and inflow of international aid, and on the other hand, they continue to intensify repressing Afghan women and girls. Heather Barr, interim co-director of the Women’s Rights Division at Human Rights Watch on Wednesday said on Twitter that the Taliban are reluctant for meaningful…
report in Daily Star, Apr 3, 2023Significantly more number of girls under the age of 18 were subjected to physical torture in March, when compared to February, found a report of Bangladesh Mahila Parishad. The findings of the report, based on incidents reported in news articles, were revealed to the public yesterday. Only in March, 28 girls (under 18) were reported to have been physically tortured and abused, whereas the number was just five in…
by Mohammad Farshad Daryosh in TOLOnews, Feb 23, 2023 at 8:16 AMFormer Afghan president Hamid Karzai met with Markus Potzel, the UN Secretary General’s Deputy Special Representative to Afghanistan, and they discussed the current situation of Afghanistan and the reopening of schools and universities for girls. Hamid Karzai tweeted that in the meeting they discussed the need for a national dialogue to ensure lasting peace in the country. “Both sides emphasized reopening schools and universities…