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World - International
12/29/2022 4:48:38 PM
A quarter of Afghanistan's private universities risks closure because of the ban on female students imposed by the Taliban government, a spokesman for the sector said Thursday.

World - International
12/29/2022 1:50:41 PM
G7 foreign ministers on Thursday called on the Taliban to "urgently reverse" a ban on women working in Afghanistan's aid sector.

World - International
12/24/2022 3:58:06 PM
Taliban security forces used a water cannon to disperse women protesting the ban on university education for women on Saturday, eyewitnesses said, as the decision from the Taliban-led government continues to cause outrage and opposition in Afghanistan and beyond.

World - Region
12/22/2022 1:16:29 PM
A small group of Afghan women staged a defiant protest in Kabul on Thursday against a Taliban order banning them from universities, an activist said, adding that some were arrested.

World - International
10/2/2022 10:11:42 AM
More than 100 Afghan women students rallied in the western city of Herat on Sunday, protesting against a suicide bombing on a Kabul classroom that killed dozens as they prepared for exams.

World - International
10/1/2022 6:17:13 PM
A group of Afghan women Saturday protested a suicide bombing that killed or wounded dozens of students in a Shia education center in the capital Kabul a day earlier, demanding better security from the Taliban-run government.

World - Region
8/13/2022 12:19:07 PM
Taliban fighters beat women protesters and fired into the air on Saturday as they violently dispersed a rare rally in the Afghan capital, days ahead of the first anniversary of the hardline Islamists' return to power.

World - International
5/10/2022 11:11:33 AM
About a dozen women protested in the Afghan capital on Tuesday against the Taliban's new edict that females must fully cover their faces and bodies when in public.

World - Region
1/16/2022 2:34:58 PM
Taliban forces on Sunday fired pepper spray at a group of women protesters in Afghanistan's capital demanding rights to work and education, three demonstrators told AFP.

World - International
9/4/2021 4:50:24 PM
'We are here to gain human rights in Afghanistan,' said 20-year-old protester Maryam Naiby. 'I love my country. I will always be here'

World - International
9/2/2021 2:00:51 PM
Now, all eyes are on whether the Taliban can deliver a cabinet capable of managing a war-wracked economy and honour the movement's pledges of a more 'inclusive' government

World - International
3/27/2021 8:34:59 PM
President Tayyip Erdogan stunned European allies with last week’s announcement that Turkey was pulling out of the Istanbul Convention, named after the Turkish city where it was drafted in 2011

World - International
11/19/2020 2:00:00 PM
According to reports in Polish media, plainclothes police with batons used force on some of the protesters Wednesday night

World - Region
11/14/2019 7:00:00 PM
Lebanese women have long been the target of pervasive stereotypes in the Arab world that have often reduced them to sex symbols, and Lebanese women are aware of it

World - International
1/20/2019 1:02:50 PM

World - International
1/19/2019 9:06:46 PM

World - International
11/25/2018 5:43:13 PM

World - Region
6/4/2017 3:13:39 PM

World - Region
3/14/2017 3:56:57 PM

World - International
8/26/2016 3:27:29 PM

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