Taliban

Women’s groups in Afghanistan have criticised the UN’s decision to comply with Taliban’s restrictions on women at latest meetings.

Cricket Australia says it won’t play in a Twenty20 series against Afghanistan due to human rights concerns for women in the country. 

Hazara women from Afghanistan living in Australia have launched a campaign to raise awareness for the women and girls under the oppressive Taliban rule.

The Taliban is sending Afghan women to prison to protect them from the threat of gender-based violence, according to a UN report.

There are calls for the government to engage with Pakistan over its policy that’s forcing Afghans to return to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. 

Australian teachers are helping to get humanitarian visa for their students from the Virtual School Australia. But time is running out.

Women are now banned from entering one of Afghanistan’s most popular national park in the country, once again diminishing women’s rights.

The Taliban’s two years ruling Afghanistan have taught us ordinary human rights initiatives are insufficient to address gender apartheid.

Security forces have broken up a demonstration of Afghan women in Kabul who were protesting the forced closure of beauty salons.

In Afghanistan, women’s beauty parlours have now been given one month to shut their doors. No reason has been given.

The Taliban have banned the use of contraception in two cities, claiming its use by women is part of a Western agenda to control the Muslim population

Female workers in NGOs have returned to work after the Taliban issued an assurance that they may work in health.