By Imran Danish, TOLOnews, Jan 10, 2023 at 8:55 PMA delegation of Muslim clerics, which has visited Afghanistan, on Tuesday called for ensuring the right to education for every Muslim and emphasized the need for girls’ access to education in Afghanistan. The head of the delegation, Sheikh Mohammad Saghir, said they have discussed education for women and girls in their meetings with the officials of the caretaker government. He said the Islamic Emirate assured that…
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by Imtiaz Ali in Dawn, Dec 31st, 2022KARACHI: The outgoing year of 2022 left painful and ugly scars on the face of Karachi when it comes to the violent crime of rape as over 500 women and girls were subjected to sexual assault in the last 12 months, it emerged on Friday. The shocking figures were compiled with the help of record of medico-legal officers posted at the three major hospitals of the metropolis —…
By Mohammad Farshad Daryosh, in ToloNews, Dec 28, 2022 at 8:28 PMThe United Nations Security Council in a statement on Wednesday called for full, equal and meaningful participation of women and girls in Afghanistan. The UNSC said that the suspension of women’s work in Afghanistan would have a significant and immediate impact on humanitarian operations in the country. “These restrictions contradict the commitments made by the Taliban to the Afghan people as well as the…
AFP in Dawn, December 28th, 2022GENEVA: The Taliban must immediately revoke their policies targeting women and girls in Afghanistan, the UN rights chief insisted on Tuesday, condemning their ‘terrible’ consequences. “No country can develop — indeed survive — socially and economically with half its population excluded,” Volker Turk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in a statement. “These unfathomable restrictions placed on women and girls will not only increase the suffering of…
By Fatema Adeeb in ToloNews, dec 27, 2022 at 9:52 PMActing Minister of Petroleum and Mines Shahabuddin Delawar on Tuesday said that a decision will be made soon regarding schools and universities for female students. He referred to the decree of the Islamic Emirate’s supreme leader and said it was instructing a temporary order. He said the decision will be made in the first month of the next solar year (April 2023) based on the…
By Susannah George in The Washington Post, Dec 21, 2022 at 5:08 p.m. ESTISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Afghan women fear further draconian restrictions, including on girls’ education, after the Taliban this week banned female students from all universities. While the official statement issued Tuesday by the Ministry of Education only covered universities, some female teachers and girls at primary schools in the Afghan capital, Kabul, reported being turned away from classes Wednesday morning. The decision to…
By Fatema Adeeb in TOLOnews, Nov 30, 2022 at 9:16 PMThe former president of the country said that dialogue among Afghans and the reopening of schools for girls are the vital issues facing the country. The former president of the country in a tweet reported that in a meeting with the ambassador of Japan they spoke about the importance of dialogue among Afghans and the reopening schools for girls. “Dialogue among Afghans, and reopening girls’…