Tag Archives: Women

Afghan women protested in Kabul on Saturday, defying a crackdown on dissent to urge foreign nations not to formally recognize the Taliban government ahead of a UN summit next week. Since the Taliban surged back to power in 2021, protesters voicing opposition against creeping curbs on women’s rights have been …

The decision to ban Afghan women from working for the United Nations was an “internal social matter”, the country’s Taliban authorities said Friday, a day after the UN Security Council demanded they overturn the ruling. The Security Council resolution passed unanimously by all 15 Council members on Thursday said a …

Afghanistan’s Taliban government ordered women on Saturday to cover their faces in public, a return to a signature policy of their past hardline rule and an escalation of restrictions that are causing anger at home and abroad. A decree from the group’s supreme leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, said that if a …

Cooped up at home in Herat, Afghanistan, Zainab Muhammadi reminisces about hanging out with her friends in the cafeteria after coding class. Now she logs on every day to secret online lessons. Her school shut down after the Taliban took control of the country in August. But that did not …

An independent human rights advocacy organization says 33 Palestinian women are suffering from inhumane conditions at Damon prison in the occupied territories, amid the Tel Aviv regime’s intensified crackdown on detainees. In a statement released on Monday, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Center for Studies (PCBS) said Israel’s Prison Service (IPS) has …

The General Secretariat of the Iraqi Council of Ministers announced on Tuesday that female candidates running for the parliamentary election have secured 97 seats out of 329 (29.4%), a record high in Iraq’s history. In a press release issued earlier today, Tuesday, the Iraqi Women Empowerment Department in the General …

The Taliban on Thursday violently cracked down on a small women’s rights demonstration, firing shots into the air and pushing back protesters, AFP journalists witnessed. A group of six women gathered outside a high school in eastern Kabul demanding the right for girls to return to secondary school after the …

Afghan women should not be allowed to work alongside men, a senior figure in the ruling Taliban said earlier this week, a position which, if formally implemented, would effectively bar them from employment in government offices, banks, media companies, and beyond. Waheed Ullah Hashimi, a senior figure in the Taliban …

France will make access to birth control free for women aged up to 25 years old from January 1 onwards, in a new measure that will cost the state 21 million euros ($24.8 million) per year, French Health Minister Olivier Veran said on Thursday. The policy announcement comes as President …

Taliban special forces in camouflage fired their weapons into the air Saturday, bringing an abrupt and frightening end to the latest protest march in the capital by Afghan women demanding equal rights from the new rulers. Also on Saturday, the chief of Pakistan’s powerful intelligence agency, which has an outsized …

A small group of Afghan women protested near the presidential palace in Kabul on Friday, demanding equal rights from the Taliban as Afghanistan’s new rulers work on forming a government and seeking international recognition. The Taliban captured most of the country in a matter of days last month and celebrated …

Afghan women will be allowed to study at university but there would be a ban on mixed classes under their rule, the Taliban’s acting higher education minister said on Sunday. The hardline Islamist group that stormed to power in mid-August after ousting the Western-back government has vowed to rule differently …

Around two-thirds of female veterans in the British armed forces have experienced bullying, harassment, or discrimination in their careers, a parliamentary report said Sunday. The report also said that women who reported serious sexual offences are “denied justice” by an inadequate military court system and complaints process. Parliament’s defense committee …

French prosecutors said Monday they are investigating claims that a Saudi prince kept seven employees in a state of modern-day slavery at an apartment he owned outside Paris. The inquiry for human trafficking was opened after the women, most from the Philippines filed complaints of modern-day slavery in October 2019, …

Turkey’s withdrawal on Thursday from an international treaty to prevent violence against women is not a step backward, President Tayyip Erdogan said, defending a move that has drawn condemnation from many Turks and Western allies. “Some circles are trying to portray our withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention as a step …

Heightened workloads and household responsibilities during the COVID-19 pandemic are driving deep dissatisfaction among many women in the workforce, according to a new report released on Monday from Deloitte Global. Seventy-seven percent of respondents said their workload increased since the pandemic crisis broke. “Women @ Work: A global outlook,” found …

Can a pregnant woman spread the coronavirus to her fetus? It’s possible, but it seems to be relatively rare and scientists think they know why that is. Many viruses can cross the placenta and infect a fetus in the womb, and evidence has been growing that the coronavirus sometimes can …

The Malaysian government was forced to apologize after its Women’s Development Department published a series of sexist “tips” to help deal with the ongoing coronavirus lockdown, including advising women to continue to wear makeup and to “avoid nagging.” The campaign was met with fierce backlash online, and the posts have …

Swapping red meat for poultry could drastically reduce a woman’s risk of getting breast cancer, a new major study finds. Researchers from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in the US have found that while eating more red meat is associated with a greater risk of developing invasive breast …

Widowed and divorced men are at higher risk of dying from serious heart conditions than women in the same situation, according to new research. Experts found that men whose wives had died were 11 percent more likely to die from a heart attack than women who had lost their husbands. …