Women’s rights
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Afghanistan
Quake Zones: 11,000 Pregnant Women at Risk of Death, Complicated Births
DID Press: International organizations warned that pregnant women in Afghanistan’s earthquake-affected areas forced to give birth under critical conditions without medical care. According to Save the Children Organization, more than 11,000 pregnant women in the earthquake-hit districts of Kunar province…
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UK Envoy Voices Concern Over Taliban’s Suppression of Afghanistani Women
DID Press: United Kingdom’s representative to the UN Human Rights Council has expressed concern over mounting restrictions on women in Afghanistan and urged the Taliban’s acting government to lift its bans on women’s rights. Speaking at the Council’s 60th session,…
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Pakistan Raises Concerns Over Terrorism, Women’s Rights in Afghanistan
DID Press: Pakistan’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN warned about increasing terrorist activities in Afghanistan and the deprivation of basic rights of Afghanistan women. Speaking at a UN Human Rights Council session, Danial Hussain expressed concern over terrorist operations…
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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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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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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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