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‘I will not wear the burqa’: Some Afghan women defy Taliban edict

May 16, 2022admin

/ Asia / Pacific VIDEO REPORT Issued on: 14/05/2022 – 11:14 02:23 The Taliban on May 7, 2022 issued an edict ordering women to cover their faces in public. But a few Afghan women have vowed to defy the order © FRANCE 24 screengrab The Taliban earlier this month issued a decree urging women to […]

Afghan women rip down banners when Taliban refuse to talk about education

April 6, 2022admin

Issued on: 06/04/2022 – 18:27 Angry women rope down the Taliban’s banner ‘People of Bamiyan support the Taliban’. © Observers They went to the meeting hoping to talk to the Taliban about Afghan women’s right to education. Around 400 women and girls, many of them of high-school and university age, showed up on April 1 […]