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Kabul’s Diplomatic Deadlock: Why the World Still Misreads the Taliban After Five Years?
DID Press: Five years after the fall of Kabul and the Taliban’s return to power, Afghanistan is facing one of the most complex and prolonged legitimacy crises in its modern history. From the first days of August 2021, the Taliban…
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Five Years of Taliban Rule Marked by Widespread Human Rights Violations
DID Press: The human rights organization Rawadari has said in a new report that systematic human rights violations and the repression of Afghan citizens have continued over the past five years, with thousands of civilians falling victim to targeted killings,…
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140 Civil Society Groups Call for Criminalization of Taliban Gender Apartheid
DID Press: About 140 civil society organizations and women’s protest movements have called on the United Nations and the international community to recognize and criminalize the Taliban’s gender apartheid as a “crime against humanity” and halt political engagement with the…
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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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NRC Warns Afghanistan’s Humanitarian Crisis Is Deepening
DID Press: The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has warned that Afghanistan’s humanitarian crisis is worsening as international aid declines sharply, five years after Western governments withdrew their troops, diplomats and development agencies from the country. According to an NRC report,…
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