UNAMA: Taliban systemically erasing women’s public life and freedom of movement

UNAMA: Taliban systemically erasing women’s public life and freedom of movement

The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) on Thursday released its first quarterly human rights report of 2025, stating that the Taliban continues to implement decrees aimed at erasing women from public life and restricting their fundamental freedoms, including access to education, work, health care, and freedom of movement. Following the withdrawal of US and NATO forces in August 2021, the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan after th…

Women in Afghanistan have been increasingly deprived of rights since the Taliban took power in 2021. "NZZ Format" tells of Afghans and their unbroken will not to become invisible.

Afghanistan: Taliban restrictions on women’s rights intensify

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have followed through on decrees aimed at erasing women from public life in the country and restricting their freedom of movement, the UN mission to the country (UNAMA) said in its latest human rights report published on Thursday covering the first quarter of 2025.

HRW: Women’s Workforce Participation in Afghanistan Falls to 5% Under Taliban – KabulNow

Marking International Workers’ Day, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported that women’s participation in Afghanistan’s labor force has plummeted to just 5% due to sweeping Taliban-imposed restrictions. The post HRW: Women’s Workforce Participation in Afghanistan Falls to 5% Under Taliban appeared first on KabulNow.

On Labor Day, HRW condemns Taliban restrictions on women’s right to work

Human Rights Watch has marked May 1, Labor Day, with a call to support Afghan women’s continued resistance to the Taliban’s systematic exclusion of women from the workforce and public life—an exclusion the group describe as among the most repressive in the world. In a statement released Wednesday, the organization said Taliban have severely curtailed women’s paid employment since returning to power in August 2021, barring them from most professi…

Amnesty International said on the occasion of International Workers' Day that due to Taliban restrictions, women's participation in the Afghan labor force has dropped to five percent. The organization published an article today (Thursday, 1 Soor) saying that this figure was about 19 percent before the Taliban took control of Afghanistan. The article also stated that Afghan women's access to formal employment has become "almost impossible." Human…