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women’s rights

Creeping curbs

Amini, 22, died on 16 September three days after slipping into a coma following her arrest by Iran’s morality police for an alleged breach of the country’s oppressive dress code.

Position of Women

New challenges have surfaced due to quick technological changes, rise of neoliberalism. and the Covid 19 pandemic. Women still face discrimination, exploitation, bias, and stereotyping, continuing violence, unequal pay for equal work, gross inequalities in domestic and childcare responsibilities

Afghan Women~II

Disturbing news comes in the form of a fatwa on lady doctors, on the future of co-education and on imposition of penalties on lady artists, singer, journalists, and students. The only light at the end of the tunnel is the fact that Afghan women have now taken to the streets to claim protection of rights they had gained in the last 20 years.

Taliban vow to respect women, despite history of oppression

The Taliban have sought to portray themselves as more moderate than when they imposed a strict form of Islamic rule in the late 1990s. But many Afghans remain skeptical and thousands have raced to the airport, desperate to flee the country.