Afghanistan News » Herat News Afghanistan » Herat » Education: ‘One day the Taliban will need women to be educated’: three sisters on being forced back to Afghanistan
Shallah, Fatimah and Maahi are among hundreds of thousands of Afghan women and girls deported from Iran and Pakistan in the past year to a life of severe restrictions ...
News Afghanistan » Herat » Education: The Herat arrests are a defining moment of Taliban repression in Afghanistan
Since August 2021, the systematic dismantling of women’s rights in Afghanistan has unfolded through successive decrees that have banned girls from secondary education and universities, excluded women ...
News Afghanistan » Herat » Education: Why has Gen Z ignored Afghanistan’s oppressed women and girls?
But there is no sense of injustice or urgency; no murmur of disgust and ‘rage’ among the ever-volatile Gen Z, the current favourite of regime-change conspirators. Does that generation not exist in ...
News Afghanistan » Herat » Education: Afghan Taliban Enforces 'Proper Hijab' With Detentions And Beatings Of Women
Fear has gripped Afghanistan's third city as the Taliban government violently enforces a stricter dress code for women. Members of the Taliban's notorious morality police have arrested and even ...
News Afghanistan » Herat » Education: Afghan women's cancer crisis deserves its own response
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) already account for an estimated 43% of all deaths in Afghanistan1 and are projected to exceed 60% by 2030, mainly among women. However, access to cancer care remains ...
News Afghanistan » Herat » Education: Afghans scrap protest plans as Herat city under tight security
Afghans scrapped protest plans in Herat on Friday as heavily armed security forces were deployed in the city, after an earlier rally against tightening restrictions on women was violently dispersed.