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When the Taliban returned to power in 2021, the international community knew what lay in store for Afghan women. But while world leaders deliberate, Afghan women are left paying the price for ...
News Afghanistan » Herat » Religion: Taliban says 'no oppression' of Afghan women after dress crackdown
Afghanistan's minister in charge of vice and virtue defended on Monday the crackdown on women's dress code in the western city of Herat, saying it protected "dignity" and dismissing criticism as ...
News Afghanistan » Herat » Religion: Afghanistan’s vice and virtue minister emphasizes importance of sharia and religious guidance
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News Afghanistan » Herat » Religion: Inside Herat, Where a Taliban Campaign Targets a Cosmopolitan Outpost
Afghanistan’s leader has exerted full control over a city that once enjoyed looser social norms, even under Taliban rule.
News Afghanistan » Herat » Religion: Protesters injured during demonstration against Taliban-imposed dress code for women
A crackdown by Afghan authorities on a protest against the arrest and detention of more than a dozen women over dress code violations reportedly injured at least three people Tuesday. Subscribe to ...
News Afghanistan » Herat » Religion: Taliban Bars Women Without A Burqa From Entering Hospitals In Afghanistan
The Taliban has barred female patients, visitors, and medical staff who do not wear the all-encompassing burqa from entering public hospitals in western Afghanistan, the latest restriction by the hard ...
News Afghanistan » Herat » Religion: Taliban: Women not oppressed after dress crackdown
HERAT, Afghanistan — Afghanistan's minister in charge of vice and virtue defended on Monday the crackdown on women's dress code in the western city of Herat, saying it protected "dignity" and ...
News Afghanistan » Herat » Religion: Afghan Taliban clamp down on women, smartphones, protests
The news from Afghanistan — or at least the news that can be gleamed and pieced together through the screen of censorship imposed by the Taliban regime — is alarming. In early June, Taliban ...
News Afghanistan » Herat » Religion: Women detained in Afghanistan's Herat in clothing crackdown, eyewitnesses say
Residents in the western Afghan city of Herat told the AFP news agency they had witnessed several women detained by the Taliban government's morality police, in a crackdown over clothing which has ...
News Afghanistan » Herat » Religion: Businesses suffer in Afghanistan as Taliban dress code restrictions keep women home
Businesses in Afghanistan's western city of Herat are witnessing a sharp decline in customers as women increasingly avoid public spaces following a recent Taliban crackdown on dress code violations, ...