No excuse for education ban on women, says Taliban leader
A senior Taliban figure has urged the group’s leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no ...
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Taliban orders all NGOs in Afghanistan to stop employing women or face closure
The Taliban says it will close all national and foreign nongovernmental groups in Afghanistan employing women. It comes two years after they told NGOs to suspend the employment of Afghan women ...
Taliban skip OIC meet on girls’ education in Pakistan
Taliban-led Afghanistan skipped a two-day summit in Pakistan’s Islamabad, organised by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) focussing on girls’ education in Muslim-ma ...
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Taliban leader bans windows overlooking women’s areas
The Taliban’s supreme leader has issued an order banning the construction of windows in residential buildings that overlook areas used by Afghan women and saying that existing ones should be ...