Taliban

The seizure of the women’s ministry is the latest sign that the Taliban is clamping down on women’s rights, one month after its takeover of Kabul.

Journalist Behesta Arghand who interviewed a Taliban spokesperson on television days after the fall of Kabul, has since fled Afghanistan.

Despite claims they are altering their ways, Taliban insurgents shot and killed a woman for not wearing a burqa on Tuesday.

Malala Yousafzai, who survived a Taliban assassination attempt as a teenager, has said she has real fears for women and girls in Afghanistan.

Zakia Khudadadi is Afghanistan’s first female Paralympian but cannot go to the Tokyo Paralympics next week.

The jaw-dropping moment that Afghan-born Australian reporter for the BBC, Yalda Hakim was called by a spokesperson for the Taliban..

The Taliban is now ordering religious leaders to provide them with lists of girls over the age of 15 to enter into ‘marriages’ to Taliban fighters.

The international community has abandoned Afghan women just as we’ve celebrating everything they have achieved.

As the US government engages in peace negotiations with the Taliban, not a single woman has been included, writes Susan Hutchinson.