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Taliban Have Issued More Than 100 Decrees Restricting Women
DID Press: UN Women has said that the Taliban have issued more than 100 restrictive decrees targeting women and girls over the past five years, measures that have institutionalized gender discrimination in Afghanistan’s laws and social structures and severely limited…
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UN Women: 52% of Afghan Women Leave Home Twice or Less a Month
DID Press: A new report by UN Women shows that restrictions imposed on women in Afghanistan, five years after the Taliban returned to power, have significantly affected their freedom of movement, access to education, mental well-being and outlook for the…
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UNESCO: 2.4 Million Afghan Girls Barred From Education Since Taliban Takeover
DID Press: UNESCO said Tuesday that around 2.4 million girls in Afghanistan have been denied access to secondary education since the Taliban returned to power in 2021, deepening the country’s education crisis and threatening the future of its workforce. In…
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ICC Secretly Issued Arrest Warrants for Two More Senior Taliban Figures
DID Press: International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague secretly issued arrest warrants last year for two additional senior Taliban figures over alleged gender-based and political persecution, according to an exclusive report by Middle East Eye published Wednesday. The report,…
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Taliban Expand Diplomatic Ties as Civil Rights Crackdown Remains a Major Barrier
DID Press: Nearly five years after returning to power, the Taliban have expanded working and diplomatic relations with a growing number of countries in the region and Europe. However, Russia remains the only country to have formally recognized the Taliban…
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Five Years After the Taliban’s Return: Afghanistan Needs a Comprehensive Vision for the Future
DID Press: As Afghanistan approaches the fifth anniversary of the Taliban’s return to power, the country needs a comprehensive, forward-looking approach centered on its substantial domestic potential. The past five years cannot be assessed solely through political and security indicators.…
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Former Ghani Adviser Calls for Girls’ Education, National Unity in Afghanistan
DID Press: Ali Muhammadi, a former adviser to Ashraf Ghani and political activist, has argued that the failures of Afghanistan’s politicians cannot be explained solely by external factors, saying that resolving the fundamental issues of girls’ education and creating a…
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Taliban Suspends Activities of Seven Private Universities
DID Press: Taliban’s Ministry of Higher Education has suspended the activities of seven private universities for one year, citing the enrollment of fictitious students and involvement in corruption. The ministry said the decision followed repeated warnings to the institutions.It also…
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Taliban Leader Urges Clerics, Universities to Strengthen Islamic System
DID Press: Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada has stressed the role of religious scholars and universities in strengthening what he described as the “Islamic system,” calling clerics the “heirs of the prophets” and urging university officials to prepare students to serve…
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More Than 50 Experts Call for Criminalizing Gender Apartheid Under Taliban Rule
DID Press: More than 50 prominent lawyers and human rights advocates have called for the recognition and criminalization of gender apartheid under international law, ahead of the fifth anniversary of the Taliban’s return to power. The group issued an “International…
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