Women's Rights

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  Women's Rights

  2023-07-27

  'Heartbroken': Afghan women devastated by beauty parlour ban

  The ban on beauty parlours is the latest blow not only to women's earning capabilities -- with salon owners and workers only their households' only source of income -- but also to their social lives.

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  Women's Rights

  2023-07-06

  Afghan women dismayed by order to close beauty parlours

  Beauty parlours have been seen as a safe place for women to gather and socialise for years, and were one of the last remaining places for them to go.

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  Women's Rights

  2023-01-18

  Three international NGOs partially resume work in Afghanistan

  CARE, Save the Children and International Rescue Committee (IRC) suspended their operations in late December in protest at a government order banning Afghan women from aid work.

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  Women's Rights

  2022-12-29

  Female journalists in Farah, Afghanistan, continue media activities, hopeful for future

  By defying the restrictions against them and recording programmes specifically for women, female reporters in Farah ensure women's voices are not silenced.

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  Women's Rights

  2022-08-31

  US-based non-profit works against child marriages in western Afghanistan

  Extreme poverty has forced some families to sell young daughters into marriage in order to survive. Too Young To Wed has already helped 300 families earn an income and keep their daughters safe.

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  Women's Rights

  2021-09-17

  Iranian guards ordered female IAEA inspectors to remove clothing

  Diplomats say up to seven separate incidents occurred in which Iranian guards at nuclear facilities inappropriately touched and harassed female members of the UN monitoring agency.

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  Women's Rights

  2021-09-08

  Defiant Afghan women demand their rights in face of Taliban threats

  Women have stepped up their defiance of the Taliban in recent days, unwilling to relinquish the gains they have made over the past 20 years.

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  Women's Rights

  2021-03-30

  Young Afghan women reject possibility of return to 'dark times' of Taliban

  'If the Taliban want to return to power under the guise of peace and stop the advancement of girls, that kind of peace is unacceptable for us,' said one young Afghan woman.

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  Women's Rights

  2020-12-10

  KP launches project to foster women's entrepreneurship in tribal belt

  Economically empowered tribal women will help guarantee peace and stifle terrorism, activists say.

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  Women's Rights

  2020-09-10

  With hard work, determination, Pakistani women break out of traditional roles

  Achievements by women reflect the increasing role they play in Pakistani institutions and society after overcoming decades of oppression by extremist and traditional ideologies.