Latest items for Afghanistan
Jan. 18, 2025, 3:13 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: IIP-PRACTICE-1, IIP-LAW-1
"The Taliban have banned the construction of windows that allow women to be seen in the kitchen or courtyard of neighboring houses. This further restricts women’s freedom. Yet, the world and United Nations remains silent about Afghan women" (1).
Variables: IIP-PRACTICE-1, IIP-LAW-1
"The Taliban have banned the construction of windows that allow women to be seen in the kitchen or courtyard of neighboring houses. This further restricts women’s freedom. Yet, the world and United Nations remains silent about Afghan women" (1).
Jan. 18, 2025, 1:10 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-2
"Nearly 80 girls were poisoned and hospitalised in two separate attacks at their primary schools in northern Afghanistan, an education official has said" (par. 1). "Nearly 80 female students were poisoned in Sangcharak district, said Mohammad Rahmani, who heads the provincial education department. He said 60 students were poisoned in Naswan-e-Kabod Aab School and 17 others were poisoned in Naswan-e-Faizabad School" (par. 6-7). "He [Mohammad Rahmani] gave no information on how the girls were poisoned or the nature of their injuries. Mr Rahmani did not give their ages but said they were in grades 1 to 6" (par. 10).
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-2
"Nearly 80 girls were poisoned and hospitalised in two separate attacks at their primary schools in northern Afghanistan, an education official has said" (par. 1). "Nearly 80 female students were poisoned in Sangcharak district, said Mohammad Rahmani, who heads the provincial education department. He said 60 students were poisoned in Naswan-e-Kabod Aab School and 17 others were poisoned in Naswan-e-Faizabad School" (par. 6-7). "He [Mohammad Rahmani] gave no information on how the girls were poisoned or the nature of their injuries. Mr Rahmani did not give their ages but said they were in grades 1 to 6" (par. 10).
Jan. 18, 2025, 1:10 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: MURDER-DATA-3
"Nearly 80 girls were poisoned and hospitalised in two separate attacks at their primary schools in northern Afghanistan, an education official has said" (par. 1). "Nearly 80 female students were poisoned in Sangcharak district, said Mohammad Rahmani, who heads the provincial education department. He said 60 students were poisoned in Naswan-e-Kabod Aab School and 17 others were poisoned in Naswan-e-Faizabad School" (par. 6-7).
Variables: MURDER-DATA-3
"Nearly 80 girls were poisoned and hospitalised in two separate attacks at their primary schools in northern Afghanistan, an education official has said" (par. 1). "Nearly 80 female students were poisoned in Sangcharak district, said Mohammad Rahmani, who heads the provincial education department. He said 60 students were poisoned in Naswan-e-Kabod Aab School and 17 others were poisoned in Naswan-e-Faizabad School" (par. 6-7).
Jan. 18, 2025, 1:10 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"Nearly 80 girls were poisoned and hospitalised in two separate attacks at their primary schools in northern Afghanistan, an education official has said. It is thought to be the first time this kind of assault has happened since the Taliban swept to power in August 2021 and began their crackdown on the rights and freedoms of Afghan women and girls" (par. 1-2).
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"Nearly 80 girls were poisoned and hospitalised in two separate attacks at their primary schools in northern Afghanistan, an education official has said. It is thought to be the first time this kind of assault has happened since the Taliban swept to power in August 2021 and began their crackdown on the rights and freedoms of Afghan women and girls" (par. 1-2).
Jan. 18, 2025, 1:10 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1, IIP-PRACTICE-1, AFE-LAW-1
"Girls are banned from education beyond sixth grade, including university, and women are barred from most jobs and public spaces" (par. 3).
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1, IIP-PRACTICE-1, AFE-LAW-1
"Girls are banned from education beyond sixth grade, including university, and women are barred from most jobs and public spaces" (par. 3).
Jan. 18, 2025, 12:52 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-2
"Zahra, a young women’s rights activist, organised online protests after the Taliban began brutally repressing demonstrations: “Since we cannot protest in the streets any more, we do it from home: with the masks, with the hijab, in front of the camera. 'Five to 10 women do these videos, and we then send them to the media, in order to still raise our voices,' she [said]. Yet in the months since we [journalist] interviewed her in Kabul, she has lost hope that her activism could change anything and has left the country to live in exile. 'Now I see there is no way to stay here; I would waste my time,...more
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-2
"Zahra, a young women’s rights activist, organised online protests after the Taliban began brutally repressing demonstrations: “Since we cannot protest in the streets any more, we do it from home: with the masks, with the hijab, in front of the camera. 'Five to 10 women do these videos, and we then send them to the media, in order to still raise our voices,' she [said]. Yet in the months since we [journalist] interviewed her in Kabul, she has lost hope that her activism could change anything and has left the country to live in exile. 'Now I see there is no way to stay here; I would waste my time,...more
Jan. 18, 2025, 12:52 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-1
"Zahra, a young women’s rights activist, organised online protests after the Taliban began brutally repressing demonstrations: “Since we cannot protest in the streets any more, we do it from home: with the masks, with the hijab, in front of the camera. 'Five to 10 women do these videos, and we then send them to the media, in order to still raise our voices,' she [said]" (para 24-25).
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-1
"Zahra, a young women’s rights activist, organised online protests after the Taliban began brutally repressing demonstrations: “Since we cannot protest in the streets any more, we do it from home: with the masks, with the hijab, in front of the camera. 'Five to 10 women do these videos, and we then send them to the media, in order to still raise our voices,' she [said]" (para 24-25).
Jan. 18, 2025, 12:52 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: RCDW-LAW-1, RCDW-LAW-2
"From Kandahar, the birthplace and political headquarters of the Taliban, the group’s leaders have dictated that women must cover their faces in public, always be accompanied by a man and never let their voices be heard in public" (para 3).
Variables: RCDW-LAW-1, RCDW-LAW-2
"From Kandahar, the birthplace and political headquarters of the Taliban, the group’s leaders have dictated that women must cover their faces in public, always be accompanied by a man and never let their voices be heard in public" (para 3).
Jan. 18, 2025, 12:52 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1, MARR-PRACTICE-5
"At only 14, Maryam [Afghani girl] has been forced to become engaged to her landlord’s son in exchange for a well and solar panels, after her family could not find work" (para 15).
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1, MARR-PRACTICE-5
"At only 14, Maryam [Afghani girl] has been forced to become engaged to her landlord’s son in exchange for a well and solar panels, after her family could not find work" (para 15).
Jan. 18, 2025, 12:52 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: IIP-PRACTICE-1
"In just over three years, Afghan women have been banned from nearly every aspect of public life: schools, universities, most workplaces – even parks and bathhouses. From Kandahar, the birthplace and political headquarters of the Taliban, the group’s leaders have dictated that women must cover their faces in public, always be accompanied by a man and never let their voices be heard in public" (para 3). "Foreign women... still carried the rare privilege of freedom of movement... which has nearly disappeared for the 14 million Afghan women and girls across the country" (para 4). " In some areas – in the south and east in particular – women were already...more
Variables: IIP-PRACTICE-1
"In just over three years, Afghan women have been banned from nearly every aspect of public life: schools, universities, most workplaces – even parks and bathhouses. From Kandahar, the birthplace and political headquarters of the Taliban, the group’s leaders have dictated that women must cover their faces in public, always be accompanied by a man and never let their voices be heard in public" (para 3). "Foreign women... still carried the rare privilege of freedom of movement... which has nearly disappeared for the 14 million Afghan women and girls across the country" (para 4). " In some areas – in the south and east in particular – women were already...more
Jan. 18, 2025, 12:52 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: IIP-LAW-1, RISW-PRACTICE-2
"In just over three years, Afghan women have been banned from nearly every aspect of public life: schools, universities, most workplaces – even parks and bathhouses. From Kandahar, the birthplace and political headquarters of the Taliban, the group’s leaders have dictated that women must cover their faces in public, always be accompanied by a man and never let their voices be heard in public" (para 3).
Variables: IIP-LAW-1, RISW-PRACTICE-2
"In just over three years, Afghan women have been banned from nearly every aspect of public life: schools, universities, most workplaces – even parks and bathhouses. From Kandahar, the birthplace and political headquarters of the Taliban, the group’s leaders have dictated that women must cover their faces in public, always be accompanied by a man and never let their voices be heard in public" (para 3).
Jan. 18, 2025, 12:52 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-4
"Being barred from school now means they [women and girls] have to try to find a job or get married, like the young women in one province who spend their days sewing school uniforms for the young girls still allowed into the primary classroom" (para 13).
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-4
"Being barred from school now means they [women and girls] have to try to find a job or get married, like the young women in one province who spend their days sewing school uniforms for the young girls still allowed into the primary classroom" (para 13).
Jan. 18, 2025, 12:52 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"The economic crisis gripping the country since the Taliban took power has proved catastrophic for many girls and women" (para 14).
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"The economic crisis gripping the country since the Taliban took power has proved catastrophic for many girls and women" (para 14).
Jan. 18, 2025, 12:52 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: ERBG-LAW-1
"In just over three years, Afghan women have been banned from nearly every aspect of public life: schools, universities, most workplaces – even parks and bathhouses" (para 3).
Variables: ERBG-LAW-1
"In just over three years, Afghan women have been banned from nearly every aspect of public life: schools, universities, most workplaces – even parks and bathhouses" (para 3).
Jan. 18, 2025, 12:52 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"On 18 June, Richard Bennett, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, backed calls to codify gender apartheid in Afghanistan as a crime under international law, defining what was happening as 'a profound rejection of the full humanity of women and girls' based on their gender alone. Even in those provinces where more sympathetic Taliban commanders looked the other way, allowing underground schools to continue and for women to work and move around the streets more easily, their freedom is still dependant on the decisions and whims of men in power" (para 28-29).
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"On 18 June, Richard Bennett, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, backed calls to codify gender apartheid in Afghanistan as a crime under international law, defining what was happening as 'a profound rejection of the full humanity of women and girls' based on their gender alone. Even in those provinces where more sympathetic Taliban commanders looked the other way, allowing underground schools to continue and for women to work and move around the streets more easily, their freedom is still dependant on the decisions and whims of men in power" (para 28-29).
Jan. 18, 2025, 12:52 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: CIWM-PRACTICE-1
"Malnutrition was one of the most corrosive effects of the poverty faced by many Afghan women and their families" (para 18). "Gender inequality is fuelling this crisis: nurses ... [say] they were treating more female children because when food is scarce, families prioritised feeding the boys" (para 20).
Variables: CIWM-PRACTICE-1
"Malnutrition was one of the most corrosive effects of the poverty faced by many Afghan women and their families" (para 18). "Gender inequality is fuelling this crisis: nurses ... [say] they were treating more female children because when food is scarce, families prioritised feeding the boys" (para 20).
Jan. 18, 2025, 12:52 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: AFE-PRACTICE-1
"'[In 2021] she [Afghani girl] went to school on the day they were supposed to open, but she returned crying. [The Taliban] fired [shots] to disperse the girls, as they were asking when will the schools would open. She said the Taliban beat two girls and warned them not to leave their homes'" (para 10). "Many girls...no longer see the value of trying to continue their education at home when they cannot graduate from school, cannot work and cannot imagine a future for themselves" (para 12). "[Women] show their strength in the face of this absurd and brutal regime, including through acts of resistance: attending underground education networks" (para 22).more
Variables: AFE-PRACTICE-1
"'[In 2021] she [Afghani girl] went to school on the day they were supposed to open, but she returned crying. [The Taliban] fired [shots] to disperse the girls, as they were asking when will the schools would open. She said the Taliban beat two girls and warned them not to leave their homes'" (para 10). "Many girls...no longer see the value of trying to continue their education at home when they cannot graduate from school, cannot work and cannot imagine a future for themselves" (para 12). "[Women] show their strength in the face of this absurd and brutal regime, including through acts of resistance: attending underground education networks" (para 22).more
Jan. 18, 2025, 12:52 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: AFE-LAW-1
"In just over three years, Afghan women have been banned from nearly every aspect of public life: schools, universities, most workplaces – even parks and bathhouses" (para 3). "For many, the Taliban’s refusal to allow girls to attend secondary education has been the hardest blow" (para 6).
Variables: AFE-LAW-1
"In just over three years, Afghan women have been banned from nearly every aspect of public life: schools, universities, most workplaces – even parks and bathhouses" (para 3). "For many, the Taliban’s refusal to allow girls to attend secondary education has been the hardest blow" (para 6).
Jan. 10, 2025, 12:09 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: IIP-PRACTICE-1, IIP-LAW-1
"It is the latest attack on women’s rights by the Taliban who, since coming to power in August 2021, have ended higher education for girls, closed universities to young women, forced women out of their jobs and restricted their ability to leave their homes" (para 7).
Variables: IIP-PRACTICE-1, IIP-LAW-1
"It is the latest attack on women’s rights by the Taliban who, since coming to power in August 2021, have ended higher education for girls, closed universities to young women, forced women out of their jobs and restricted their ability to leave their homes" (para 7).
Jan. 10, 2025, 12:09 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: AFE-LAW-1
"It is the latest attack on women’s rights by the Taliban who, since coming to power in August 2021, have ended higher education for girls, closed universities to young women…" (para 7).
Variables: AFE-LAW-1
"It is the latest attack on women’s rights by the Taliban who, since coming to power in August 2021, have ended higher education for girls, closed universities to young women…" (para 7).
Jan. 10, 2025, 12:09 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: AOM-PRACTICE-1
"For Zainab, 17, who was married two years ago in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, the ban on contraceptives was a shock when she was told by her midwife last week" (para 11). This indicates that at least some women are married at the age of 15 or younger (MB2-CODER COMMENT).
Variables: AOM-PRACTICE-1
"For Zainab, 17, who was married two years ago in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, the ban on contraceptives was a shock when she was told by her midwife last week" (para 11). This indicates that at least some women are married at the age of 15 or younger (MB2-CODER COMMENT).
Jan. 10, 2025, 12:09 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: CL-DATA-1, CRPLB-PRACTICE-1
"What emerged is a picture of a system that is increasingly unaffordable to the estimated 61% to 72% of Afghan women who live in poverty, and one in which women often have more children than they want because of lack of access to modern contraception; face risky pregnancies because of lack of care; and undergo procedures that could be done more safely with access to and capacity to use more modern techniques" (para 19).
Variables: CL-DATA-1, CRPLB-PRACTICE-1
"What emerged is a picture of a system that is increasingly unaffordable to the estimated 61% to 72% of Afghan women who live in poverty, and one in which women often have more children than they want because of lack of access to modern contraception; face risky pregnancies because of lack of care; and undergo procedures that could be done more safely with access to and capacity to use more modern techniques" (para 19).
Jan. 10, 2025, 12:09 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: DACH-PRACTICE-1
"Even before the Taliban came to power, a 2021 Human Rights Watch report said the most basic information on maternal health and family planning was not available to most Afghan women" (para 18). "What emerged is a picture of a system that is increasingly unaffordable to the estimated 61% to 72% of Afghan women who live in poverty, and one in which women often have more children than they want because of lack of access to modern contraception; face risky pregnancies because of lack of care; and undergo procedures that could be done more safely with access to and capacity to use more modern techniques" (para 19).
Variables: DACH-PRACTICE-1
"Even before the Taliban came to power, a 2021 Human Rights Watch report said the most basic information on maternal health and family planning was not available to most Afghan women" (para 18). "What emerged is a picture of a system that is increasingly unaffordable to the estimated 61% to 72% of Afghan women who live in poverty, and one in which women often have more children than they want because of lack of access to modern contraception; face risky pregnancies because of lack of care; and undergo procedures that could be done more safely with access to and capacity to use more modern techniques" (para 19).
Jan. 10, 2025, 12:09 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: DACH-PRACTICE-2
"Taliban fighters have stopped the sale of contraceptives in two of Afghanistan’s main cities, claiming their use by women is a western conspiracy to control the Muslim population. The Guardian has learned that the Taliban has been going door to door, threatening midwives and ordering pharmacies to clear their shelves of all birth control medicines and devices. 'They came to my store twice with guns and threatened me not to keep contraceptive pills for sale. They are regularly checking every pharmacy in Kabul and we have stopped selling the products,' said one store owner in the city" (para 1-3) "A veteran midwife, who did not want to be named, said...more
Variables: DACH-PRACTICE-2
"Taliban fighters have stopped the sale of contraceptives in two of Afghanistan’s main cities, claiming their use by women is a western conspiracy to control the Muslim population. The Guardian has learned that the Taliban has been going door to door, threatening midwives and ordering pharmacies to clear their shelves of all birth control medicines and devices. 'They came to my store twice with guns and threatened me not to keep contraceptive pills for sale. They are regularly checking every pharmacy in Kabul and we have stopped selling the products,' said one store owner in the city" (para 1-3) "A veteran midwife, who did not want to be named, said...more
Jan. 10, 2025, 12:09 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
It is the latest attack on women’s rights by the Taliban who, since coming to power in August 2021, have ...forced women out of their jobs (para 7).
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
It is the latest attack on women’s rights by the Taliban who, since coming to power in August 2021, have ...forced women out of their jobs (para 7).
Jan. 10, 2025, 12:09 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: ERBG-LAW-1
"It is the latest attack on women’s rights by the Taliban who, since coming to power in August 2021, have ...forced women out of their jobs" (para 7).
Variables: ERBG-LAW-1
"It is the latest attack on women’s rights by the Taliban who, since coming to power in August 2021, have ...forced women out of their jobs" (para 7).
Jan. 10, 2025, 12:09 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: MMR-DATA-1
"One in every 14 Afghan women dies of causes related to pregnancy and it is one of the most dangerous countries in the world to give birth" (para 8).
Variables: MMR-DATA-1
"One in every 14 Afghan women dies of causes related to pregnancy and it is one of the most dangerous countries in the world to give birth" (para 8).
Jan. 10, 2025, 12:09 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: MABFC-DATA-1
"For Zainab, 17, who was married two years ago in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, the ban on contraceptives was a shock when she was told by her midwife last week. Zainab, who has an 18-month-old daughter, is worried…" (para 11-12). This means she had her first child while she was only 15 years old (MB2-CODER COMMENT).
Variables: MABFC-DATA-1
"For Zainab, 17, who was married two years ago in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, the ban on contraceptives was a shock when she was told by her midwife last week. Zainab, who has an 18-month-old daughter, is worried…" (para 11-12). This means she had her first child while she was only 15 years old (MB2-CODER COMMENT).
Jan. 6, 2025, 1:57 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: IIP-PRACTICE-1
"The Taliban has banned women from hearing other women's voices, in its latest bid to control and subjugate an entire gender in Afghanistan. Announced on Monday, the new rule is feared to mean that women will now no longer be able to talk to each other. Afghanistan's minister for the promotion of virtue and prevention of vice, Khalid Hanafi said: 'Even when an adult female prays and another female passes by, she must not pray loudly enough for them to hear'" (par. 1-3). "Women are also ordered to cover their faces 'to avoid temptation and tempting others', and are banned from speaking if unfamiliar men who aren't husbands or close...more
Variables: IIP-PRACTICE-1
"The Taliban has banned women from hearing other women's voices, in its latest bid to control and subjugate an entire gender in Afghanistan. Announced on Monday, the new rule is feared to mean that women will now no longer be able to talk to each other. Afghanistan's minister for the promotion of virtue and prevention of vice, Khalid Hanafi said: 'Even when an adult female prays and another female passes by, she must not pray loudly enough for them to hear'" (par. 1-3). "Women are also ordered to cover their faces 'to avoid temptation and tempting others', and are banned from speaking if unfamiliar men who aren't husbands or close...more
Jan. 6, 2025, 1:57 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: MISA-PRACTICE-1
"One former Afghan civil servant told the Telegraph of her despondency. 'They [the Taliban] are waging an all-out war against us, and we have no one in the world to hear our voices. The world has abandoned us. They left us to the Taliban, and whatever happens to us now is a result of Western government policies. I feel depressed. The world is advancing in technology and having fun with their lives, but here we cannot even hear each other’s voice.' Another woman told the newspaper: 'They want us not to exist at all, and there’s nothing we can do about it. They may succeed at some point, as many...more
Variables: MISA-PRACTICE-1
"One former Afghan civil servant told the Telegraph of her despondency. 'They [the Taliban] are waging an all-out war against us, and we have no one in the world to hear our voices. The world has abandoned us. They left us to the Taliban, and whatever happens to us now is a result of Western government policies. I feel depressed. The world is advancing in technology and having fun with their lives, but here we cannot even hear each other’s voice.' Another woman told the newspaper: 'They want us not to exist at all, and there’s nothing we can do about it. They may succeed at some point, as many...more