By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, December 10, 2023A meeting about the situation of Afghan girls and women is planned at the United Nations Security Council on Monday, December 11th. The meeting will take place behind closed doors. During this session, the United Nations Security Council is expected to review the proposals presented in the report by Feridun Sinirlioglu, the Independent Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations. Mr. Sinirlioglu’s report…
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By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, November 22, 2023Sources from Herat confirm that the Taliban administration has prohibited women’s tailoring in the central region of this province. Simultaneously, some media outlets have reported establishing a specialized women’s market in Balkh. The source, who preferred not to be named in the report, informed Khama Press that Taliban forces entered the city Wednesday morning to inspect commercial markets. Several markets, including all women’s clothing tailoring…
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, April 11, 2023In a press conference on Monday, the Afghanistan Women Protester Movement coalition asked the UN to pressure the de facto government to respect women’s rights. The Press conference by the Women Protester Movement Coalition held in Kabul responded to the Taliban’s recent ban on women’s aid workers in United Nations agencies. The Women’s Movement Coalition protested the UN’s inability to defend women’s rights in the…
By Nizamuddin Rezahi in Khaama Press, Jan 15, 2023The Islamic Emirate (IEA) government said on Saturday that it would not permit any acts that violate Islamic law, and the concerns regarding restrictions on women’s rights will be dealt with according to the established rule of the IEA in the country. Taliban chief spokesperson, Zabiullah Mujahid said in a statement that, “the Islamic Emirate tries to regulate all matters in accordance with the Islamic Sharia, and…
By Mohammad Farshad Daryosh, in ToloNews, Jan 13, 2023 at 8:42 PM The UN Security Council is holding a closed-door meeting on Friday about Afghanistan’s situation including the recent bans imposed by the caretaker government on women’s access to work and education. Chargé d’Affaires of the Afghanistan Permanent Mission to the UN, Naseer Ahmad Faiq, said that the meeting is due to be held on 13 January New York time. “The UN special envoy for…
By Nizamuddin Rezahi in Khaama Press online, Jan 13, 2023The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) plans to send a delegation to Afghanistan to discuss women’s rights to education and employment with the Taliban interim government. The decision was taken at an extraordinary meeting of the OIC in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, initiated by Türkiye – aimed at highlighting the concerns over the recent restrictions imposed by the Taliban government barring women from university education and employment…
THE Afghan Taliban’s assault on women’s freedoms continues, as the hard-line movement that rules Afghanistan has recently announced that female students will not be able to attend classes at public and private universities. Ever since they took Kabul last year, the movement has increasingly cracked down on women’s freedoms, despite hopes that ‘Taliban 2.0’ would have shed the rigid outlook of their earlier avatar. This has clearly not been the case, as shocked female university…