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• Afghanistan: Taliban Impose Women’s Dress Code, Segregation, at Private Universities
  14 September 2021, by siawi3

  The Taliban has imposed a new dress code and gender segregation for women at private universities and colleges in Afghanistan, in line with a decree issued to educational institutions

• Afghanistan: les étudiantes devront porter une abaya et un niqab
  14 September 2021, by siawi3

  Avant le retour des talibans, les étudiantes afghanes pouvaient suivre les cours dans des classes mixtes et assister à des séminaires donnés par des hommes.

• Afghanistan: Kabul Diaries
  14 September 2021, by siawi3

  Women’s daily life inside Kabul.

• 9/11 & the War on Terror: A Queer Afghan Reflects
  14 September 2021, by siawi3

  I see the ways Islamophobia functions to manipulate, “other,” and paint us as deviant as a means to justify imperialism and occupation. They flattened us, made us one dimensional, and framed us as backwards, savage people that needed to be saved because we don’t know any better.

• Afghanistan : des durs et des très durs composent le premier gouvernement taliban
  15 septembre 2021, par siawi3

  Aucune femme ne figure parmi les 33 ministres du nouvel exécutif de Kaboul, composé presque exclusivement de religieux et dans lequel la présence du Pakistan et des réseaux Haqqani se fait lourdement sentir.

• De jeunes footballeuses afghanes trouvent refuge au Pakistan
  15 septembre 2021, par siawi3

  Le Premier ministre pakistanais Imran Khan a accepté d’accueillir l’équipe féminine juinior de football d’Afghanistan sur son territoire, un mois après la prise de pouvoir des talibans à Kaboul.

• The Winner in Afghanistan: China
  16 September 2021, by siawi3

  With a trillion dollars invested in Eurasia and another trillion in Africa, China is engaged in nothing less than history’s largest infrastructure project.

• USA: ‘Lost Between Borders’: Afghan Women on the Lives They Left Behind
  16 September 2021, by siawi3

  The Times spoke with four women who have sought refuge in America. All four fled — some recently, some not — because they were endangered back home. The heartbreak is heavy, but they are not surprised: They knew the space that they had carefully carved out for themselves in society would quickly be eroded. They had warned of it all along.

• Evacuate LGBTQ+ people in Afghanistan
  17 September 2021, by siawi3

  We must extract as many LGBTQ Afghans before the Taliban executes them.Out of the nearly 800+ cases for evacuation that we have submitted to the State Department on behalf of LGBTQ Afghans none of them were able to successfully leave the country. The US government has promised to help vulnerable Afghans, including LGBTQ people evacuate out of Afghanistan, but to date, nothing has happened.

• Afghan journalists tell of Taliban beatings after covering protests
  17 September 2021, by siawi3

  Two Afghan journalists were left with ugly welts and bruises after being beaten and detained for hours by Taliban enforcers for covering a protest in the Afghan capital.The pair were picked up at a demonstration on Wednesday and taken to a police station in the capital, where they say they were punched and beaten with batons, electrical cables and whips after being accused of organising the protest.
  “One of the Taliban put his foot on my head, crushed my face against the concrete. They kicked me in the head [...] I thought they were going to kill me.”

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