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‘Our sisters deserve better’: Afghan men quit university jobs after ban on female students
Externa nyheter A Taliban decree against higher education for women – called a ‘betrayal of the nation’ – has led to male lecturers and student walkouts in solidarity
UN Security Council to meet on ban on female aid workers
Externa nyheter The United Nations Security Council is due to meet privately next week to discuss a decision by Afghanistan's Taliban-led administration to ban female humanitarian aid workers, diplomats said Wednesday.
The closed-door meeting was requested by the United Arab Emirates and Japan for Jan. 13.
New Evidence that Biometric Data Systems Imperil Afghans
Externa nyheter The Taliban control systems holding sensitive biometric data that Western donor governments left behind in Afghanistan in August 2021, putting thousands of Afghans at risk, Human Rights Watch said.
Strangers in Our Own Country: How Afghan women cope with life under the Islamic Emirate
Externa nyheter AAN report on the responses of Afghan women and their male relatives to the Taleban’s cataclysmic encroachment on their rights: How do you keep going when you have no hope?
“A Criminal Act”: Taliban Government Bars Women from University, Working for NGOs in Afghanistan
Externa nyheter DemocracyNow speaks with Jan Egeland, head of the Norwegian Refugee Council, which is one of several NGOs to suspend operations in the country, as well as Afghan educator and women’s rights activist Jamila Afghani.
More Repressive Measures In Pipeline As Taliban Reverts To ’Old Practices’
Externa nyheter Analysts said the Taliban is likely to impose more restrictions in the year ahead, including further eroding women’s rights, expanding its crackdown on dissent, empowering its notorious morality police to forcefully impose Taliban edicts, and increasing its use of corporal punishments.
Afghan Trust Funds in Swiss Makes $8.5 M in Interest
Externa nyheter A former member of the Afghan Central Bank's supreme council, Shah Mehrabi, said that the $3.5 billion in Afghan assets, which was transferred to the Bank for International Settlements, has made $8.5 million in interest.
Ban on Women’s Education Contradicts Sharia
Externa nyheter The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Ahmed el-Tayeb said that he “deeply” regrets the decision issued by the authorities in Afghanistan, preventing Afghan women's access to university education and adding that it contradicts Islamic Sharia and conflicts with its explicit call for men and women to pursue knowledge from the cradle to the grave.
Chromite mine discovered in Kandahar’s Daman district
Externa nyheter Chromite reserves, estimated at around 13,000 tons, have been found in Daman district of southern Kandahar province.