Women’s rights
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Afghanistan
Caretaker Government Rejects HRW Report on Violations of Women’s Rights
DID Press: Taliban caretaker government rejected the recent Human Rights Watch (HRW) report, denying allegations of women’s rights violations and the deprivation of girls’ education in Afghanistan. It emphasized that these issues are internal matters. Hamdullah Fitrat, deputy spokesperson for…
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Afghanistan
Women Mass Arrested in Kabul’s Dasht-e-Barchi for Lacking “Male Chaperon”
DID Press: Local sources in the Kabul’s Dasht-e-Barchi area say that on Wednesday morning, 30 July, Taliban Ministry of Vice and Virtue forces arrested dozens of women and girls on charges of not having a male chaperon (mahram) and transferred…
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Afghanistan
Women’s rights in Afghanistan: An ongoing battle
Women’s rights have been an intense battleground between different actors for over a century, with periods of promising reforms followed by resistance and often reversals of progress
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