“We are taking a stand in support of our women colleagues.” Male Afghan television presenters have started wearing masks as a symbolic protest against the Taliban for ordering all women presenters to cover their faces on air. Last week, the Taliban issued a statement to the country’s largest media outlet calling for all female TV presenters […]
3 years ago
It comes weeks after women were told to wear head-to-toe clothing in public. Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have ordered all female TV presenters to cover their faces on air. The country’s biggest media outlet, Tolo news channel, has said the order came in a statement from the Taliban’s Virtue and Vice Ministry – which is tasked with […]
3 years ago
The players were among hundreds of female athletes who fled the country when the Taliban began limiting women’s freedoms. Kim Kardashian has helped to fund an evacuation flight to the UK for members of the Afghanistan women’s youth development team. The 35 female players and their families, roughly 130 people in total, landed safely at […]
4 years ago
Under their regime, all university classes must be segregated. The Taliban’s new higher education minister has banned Afghan women from studying alongside men at university. After they took over the country last month, the Taliban said that they would implement less extreme rules than 1996-2001 Taliban rule. However, their new ban on mixed-gender education in […]
4 years ago
Aoife’s been living and working in Kabul for the past two years. A teacher from Co. Meath is among several Irish people in Afghanistan amid the Taliban’s takeover of the country. Aoife MacManus has been working in Kabul for the past two years and has said that there is a “sense of panic and fear […]
4 years ago
Afghan women are now living in fear for what the future holds. With the Taliban having retaken Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, widespread panic erupted across the city with Afghan residents trying to flee. Though an official Taliban spokesperson has said that the welfare of Kabul’s citizens is of the utmost importance to them, fears […]
4 years ago