By Christina Goldbaum in The NY TIMES, Apr 8, 2023KABUL: The Afghan government this week barred female Afghan employees at the United Nations from working in Afghanistan, according to U.N. officials, a move threatening one of the last lifelines of badly needed aid in a country where millions risk starvation and restrictions on women have hampered aid operations in recent months. The decision this week comes just over three months after the Taliban administration issued…
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By Fatima Adib in TOLOnews Online, April 06, 2023 at 8:23 PMThe United Nations Security Council will have a discussion about women’s employment in Afghanistan on Thursday evening in response to the ban on female employees of the organization in Nangarhar province, US Ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas Greenfield, said. Greenfield said on Twitter that “women are integral to humanitarian operations, including in Afghanistan where they provide lifesaving aid to the country’s most vulnerable.”…
By Mitra Majeedy in TOLOnews Online, April 06, 2023 at 8:35 PMThe Afghan consul in Karachi, Abdul Jabar Takhari, said that more than 2,000 Afghan inmates, including children and women, were released from prisons in Pakistan over the past six months. Over 280 children were among the released Afghan inmates. Takhari said that more than 200 Afghans were freed from Pakistan’s prisons on Friday. “Around 2,200 people, including 221 women and 285 children, have returned…
By Mohammad Amin Pacha in TOLOnews, April 05, 2023 at 11:24 PMThe UN instructed its female Afghan staff to stay at home for the next two days after the Islamic Emirate signaled that they would enforce a ban on Afghan women working for the UN agencies. Reuters reported that the UN told some 3,300 Afghan staff not to come to work in Afghanistan for the next two days. UN officials in Afghanistan “received word of…
AFP report, April 5, 2023KABUL: Afghan women who are United Nations employees have been blocked from work in eastern Nangarhar province, the UN mission said on Tuesday, warning Taliban authorities its aid programmes are impossible without its staff. In December, Taliban officials ordered all foreign and domestic NGOs to stop women personnel working across the crisis-stricken nation. Several suspended their entire operations in protest, piling further misery on Afghanistan’s 38 million citizens, half of whom…
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…
report in Khaama Press online, March 31, 2023Taliban have shut down Radio Sadai-e- Banowan in northeastern Badakhshan province over an alleged violation of the ruling regime’s broadcasting policy, according to the officials of the local radio station. According to the Taliban’s Director of Information and Culture in Badakhshan province, Moezuddin Ahmadi, the women-run radio station was forced to cease its operation due to broadcasting music, during the holy month of Ramadan, according to local sources.…
Report in TOLOnews, March 29,2023 at 9:56 PMAmnesty International released its annual report in which it called attention to the situation of human rights, women’s rights, and restrictions on media in Afghanistan. “Restrictions on women’s rights, freedom of the media and freedom of expression increased exponentially,” the report reads. “Institutions designed to support human rights were severely limited or shut down completely. Peaceful protesters faced arbitrary arrests, torture and enforced disappearance.” The report also accused…
By Banafsha Binesh in TOLOnews Online, March 25,2023 at 8:20 PMThe UK government has cut almost £6m in funding to a programme in Afghanistan supporting vulnerable women and girls, the Guardian Newspaper said, citing Save the Children. According to the report, Save the Children said it has been told by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office that it will receive just over £1m of a promised £7m to support more than 100,000 people to access…
Unlawful denial of girls’ rights to education in Afghanistan impacting future of country: UN experts
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, March 21, 2023The ongoing unlawful denial of girls and women’s right to education in Afghanistan is impacting an entire generation and the country’s future, Said Richard Bennett, the UN special envoy for Afghanistan and other UN experts on Mondy. The statement was issued on 20 March 2023, two days before schools reopened across Afghanistan. The statement read that teenage girls will not be allowed to resume their…
By Imran Danish in TOLOnews Online, March 20,2023 at 10:01 PMWomen in Afghanistan have faced various types of restrictions including a ban on females working in NGOs and female students attending school grades 7-12 and universities. The Ministry of Economy in a letter announced that the work of all female employes at NGOs was suspended until further notice. The decision faced strong reactions from the international community. However, the interim government’s officials said that the…