By Fatema Adeeb in ToloNews, Jan 14, 2023 at 11:04 PMThe United Nations Security Council in a meeting held behind closed doors asked the Islamic Emirate to immediately reverse all restrictions on the work and education of women in Afghanistan. A statement issued after the meeting says the Islamic Emirate should uphold its commitments to Afghan women and girls. Speaking at the meeting, the Permanent Representative of Japan to the UN, Kimihiro Ishikane said that…
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REPORT IN The News, Jan 12, 2023LAHORE: The recent stampedes that have left one labourer dead in Mirpurkhas and several women injured in Nawabshah, both caught in crowds desperate to buy flour, should serve as a grim wake-up call to federal and provincial governments. The HRCP, in a statement issued on Wednesday, said: “The HRCP believes that spiralling inflation, food shortages and poor distribution mechanisms, and mass layoffs are leading steadily to a human rights…
By Nizamuddin Rezahi in Khaama Press, January 11, 2023The recent gender-based decrees issued by the Supreme leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan restricting women from working for NGOs and getting university and higher education, culminated the tensions among the Afghan people. The implementation of the ban completely erased Afghan women and girls from society, which prompted severe condemnations from the international community and the people of Afghanistan. Although some foreign governments, aid organizations, and…
by Nizamuddin Rezahi in Khaama Press online, Jan 9, 2023Following the imposition of harsh restrictions on women, the international aid organizations say their operations without the presence of female employees have been paralyzed in Afghanistan. Gen Egeland, the Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) earlier today Tweeted that Norway’s primer aid organization can’t continue its operations in Afghanistan without its female employees. Mr. Egeland recently traveled to Afghanistan and visited the NRC offices,…
By Imran Danish, in TOLOnews, Jan 8, 2023 at 8:07 PMActing Minister of Higher Education Neda Mohammad Nadim in a meeting with the UN deputy special envoy for Afghanistan, Markus Potzel, said that the Islamic Emirate has not decided on an absolute ban on women’s education, but has postponed the issue due to external factors. Nadim added that the Islamic Emirate does not accept anyone’s demands through pressure. The spokesperson of the Ministry of Higher…
By Banafsha Binesh in ToloNews, Dec 31, 2022 at 11:01 PMHuman rights situation was a key issue in Afghanistan in 2022. During this year, Islamic Emirate Supreme Leader Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada issued at least seven decrees about women, something that triggered widespread reactions within and outside Afghanistan. Based on the decrees, women were banned from attending schools, parks, sports, universities and jobs in non-governmental organizations. The decrees that restricted the rights of women faced protests…
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 Hadia Ziaei in TOLOnews, Dec 30, 2022 at 8:05 PMFollowing the reactions of Islamic countries to banning women and girls from education, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in a statement on Thursday called on the International Islamic Fiqh Academy (IIFA) to quickly launch a global campaign to unite scholars and religious authorities in the Islamic world against the Islamic Emirate’s decision to prevent girls from education. “The decision of the Taliban government to…
AFP in Dawn, December 30th, 2022LONDON: G7 foreign ministers on Thursday called on the Taliban to “urgently reverse” a ban on women working in Afghanistan’s aid sector. The ban is the latest blow against women’s rights in Afghanistan since the Taliban reclaimed power last year. The hardline Islamists also barred women from attending universities earlier this month, prompting global outrage and protests in some Afghan cities. The G7 ministers along with those of Australia, Denmark,…
by Rupa Gahatraj in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 29, 2022Puja Loniya, a 23-year-old woman from Jaipur of Nepalgunj sub-metropolitan city, was found dead at her husband’s house on December 13. Puja, a mother of a son and a daughter, was married to Rajkumar Loniya of Janaki Rural Municipality-6 five years ago. Puja’s parents received the news of her death through a neighbour and have accused Rajkumar’s family of torturing and killing their daughter over dowry.…
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…