Afghanistan: Female footballers flee to Pakistan to escape Taliban
Sep 16, 2021, at 01:21 am
Karachi/UNI: Female footballers of Afghanistan's national junior girls team, who had been in hiding following threats from the Taliban, crossed the Torkham border along with their families to reach Pakistan on Tuesday night.
Afghan women posts images in colourful dresses to challenge Taliban decree
Sep 14, 2021, at 11:05 pm
Kabul: Breaking the rule set by Taliban that eves should wear all-black attire in the nation, a group of Afghanistan women, who stay abroad, have posted their own images online wearing colourful traditional Afghan clothes.
Support Afghans in their most perilous hour, urges UN’s Guterres
Sep 14, 2021, at 10:18 pm
New York: The international community should urgently offer a “lifeline” to millions of vulnerable Afghans “who face perhaps their most perilous hour”, the UN Secretary-General said on Monday.
Afghanistan: Female doctor in Kandahar says Taliban insurgents hit her
Sep 13, 2021, at 01:37 am
Kandahar: A female doctor has claimed she was beaten up by Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan's Kandahar region, media reports said.
Security Council must not fail women, girls of Afghanistan, Elders warn
Sep 08, 2021, at 11:20 pm
New York: The Security Council cannot fail the women and girls of Afghanistan, former President of Ireland Mary Robinson warned on Tuesday, as she reminded its 15 members of the relentless work carried out over nearly 20 years to secure their rights through constitutional, legislative and policy changes.
Sep 06, 2021, at 10:08 pm
Kabul: Taliban rulers of Afghanistan have now issued a diktat by which women attending private Afghan universities must wear an abaya and niqab to cover most of their faces.
Afghanistan Women: Where are they now?
Sep 06, 2021, at 08:17 pm
As the remarkable two-decades-long journey of the women of Afghanistan comes to a rude halt, Jayalakshmi Sengupta recalls her time in the war-torn country with Miriam and Marzia, Zulia and Zainab- story makers and storytellers, those who created history and those who chronicled them.
Afghanistan: Women demonstrate against Taliban over right to work under new regime
Sep 04, 2021, at 05:13 pm
Kabul: A large number of women in Herat demonstrated for their right to work under a new regime as the Taliban is all set to form a government in the war-torn country.
Afghanistan crisis: Taliban spokesman says woman in Hijab will be able to get education, work
Sep 04, 2021, at 03:18 pm
Washington/UNI/Sputnik: Afghan women in hijab will have access to education and work, Taliban (banned in Russia) spokesman Suhail Shaheen said, adding that the United States should not try to change the culture of the country.
Women face uncertain future in Afghanistan: Geo-political expert
Aug 28, 2021, at 04:51 pm
New Delhi: Afghan women are most likely to face an uncertain future in Afghanistan as Taliban overran the country after a period of 20 years, said a geo-political expert.
Geopolitical expert Fabien Baussarat says women have no place in Taliban's Afghanistan
Aug 26, 2021, at 11:27 pm
Tel Aviv: Fabien Baussarat, the President of Center of Political and Foreign Affairs (CPFA), has said that Taliban's attitude towards women has not changed.
Future Afghanistan govt will not be complete without women: ex-Parliamentarian
Aug 25, 2021, at 05:33 am
Kabul: A former female Afghani Parliamentarian has batted for the presence of women in the future government of the country, giving a strong message to Taliban insurgents who have overrun the nation.
Afghanistan: UN agencies sound alarm over emergency aid supply logjam
Aug 24, 2021, at 05:50 pm
New York: UN humanitarian agencies are warning that they are unable to bring urgently needed emergency supplies into Afghanistan, and are calling for a “humanitarian airbridge” to be set up immediately, to allow the unimpeded delivery of medicines and other aid supplies to the country.
Taliban rule: US, other nations express concern over rights of women, girls in Afghanistan
Aug 20, 2021, at 11:58 pm
Kabul: The US government and several other nations, including Australia, joined to issue a statement where they expressed deep concern about the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan under the Taliban rule.
US NSA expresses fear over Taliban treatment towards Afghanistan women
Aug 19, 2021, at 09:20 pm
Washington: US National Security Advisor (NSA) Jake Sullivan on Tuesday expressed concern over the Taliban insurgents' treatment towards women and girls in Afghanistan, a nation captured by them on Sunday after entering Kabul city.
Aug 17, 2021, at 11:31 pm
Kabul: A picture of a man whitewashing the photo of a woman in Kabul has earned the attention of netizens as Taliban insurgents took control of the Afghanistan capital, triggering fears about the precarious condition of women in the country.
Human rights violations against women, girls in Afghanistan leaves Antonio Guterres deeply concerned
Aug 17, 2021, at 11:03 pm
New Delhi: UN Secretary of State Antonio Guterres on Tuesday expressed concern over the accounts of human rights violations against women and girls of Afghanistan 'who fear a return to the darkest days'.
Jul 28, 2021, at 12:23 am
Kabul: It seems that women have already started facing the brunt of Taliban's resurgence in Afghanistan as is evident from the life of 29-year-old pregnant mother Chamal whose husband was killed by the insurgents in Ghazni, media reports said.
Dark days return for women in Afghanistan as Taliban members make comeback
Jul 17, 2021, at 01:44 am
Dark days are returning for women in Afghanistan as the Taliban is slowly capturing regions in the South Asian country where foreign troops are slowly moving out after decades of war.
Afghanistan: Dozens of women take up arms in support of Afghan National Defense and Security Forces
Jul 08, 2021, at 12:01 am
Kabul: The political situation in Afghanistan is undergoing changes with the US troops withdrawing from the country and now amid the rise of the Taliban, several women in Feroz Koh took up arms to pledge their support to the Republic and the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces.
US report alerts: Taliban's return to power may undo women's advancement in Afghanistan
May 06, 2021, at 02:53 pm
Kabul: A US intelligence has warned in its classified report that in case Taliban forces return to power in Afghanistan then it would risk undoing the gains made in women's rights since the group's ousting nearly two decades ago.
US report alerts: Taliban's return to power may undo women's advancement in Afghanistan
May 06, 2021, at 04:20 am
Kablu: A US intelligence has warned in its classified report that in case Taliban forces return to power in Afghanistan then it would risk undoing the gains made in women's rights since the group's ousting nearly two decades ago.
Jul 27, 2019, at 07:04 am
New York, July 27 (IBNS): Afghan women have “paid a high price” during their country’s nearly four decades of conflict, the United Nations deputy chief said on Friday, addressing the Security Council a day after Kabul had been hit with a fresh round of “horrific” bomb attacks.
Inclusive peace in Afghanistan means ‘women at the centre’ urges UN deputy chief in Kabul
Jul 22, 2019, at 09:49 am
New York, July 22 (IBNS): The UN deputy chief issued an impassioned plea on Sunday for Afghans to reconcile with the past and put “women at the centre” of all efforts to forge a durable peace, and a truly inclusive political process where women’s voices are truly heard.