UN Calls on De Facto Authorities to Reverse Discriminatory Measures Targeting Women’s Rights and Healthcare Access.
Some may question why terminology matters. What leaders call the situation in Afghanistan won’t instantly change the reality for women there. Even with labeling the Taliban’s actions as a ...
It’s all absolutely absurd. As an activist, when I think about the work I have been doing and what many other Afghan women have been doing, we have a simple wish: Let’s call it a crime at the ...
The Taliban's supreme leader has banned women from taking nursing and midwifery courses. And that is tragic news for women in ...
On Nov. 28, 2024, six state parties referred the “Situation in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan” to the International Criminal Court, expressing concern about the severe deterioration of the human ...
In the referral, the States Parties express their concern about the severe deterioration of the human rights situation in Afghanistan, especially for women and girls, and request the Office of the ...
Since taking control of Afghanistan in 2021, the Taliban has imposed increasingly draconian policies aimed at excluding women ...
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Taliban authorities in Afghanistan are reported to have banned medical schools from admitting female students, removing the last remaining opportunity for women to pursue higher education.
That was the challenge for the award-winning Afghan filmmaker Sahra Mani, who left the country after the Taliban takeover. Her new documentary, Bread & Roses, takes the viewers into the heart of the ...
Her new documentary, Bread & Roses, takes the viewers into the heart of the women's resistance in Afghanistan. With a mosaic of cellphone footage, videos from Mani's archives and clips from ...
Bread & Roses, a new documentary from filmmaker Sahra Mani, Jennifer Lawrence, and Malala Yousafzai, provides a harrowing ...