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The Muslim world has been strong on rhetoric, short on action over Gaza and Afghanistan
When it comes to dealing with two of the biggest current crises in the Muslim world – the devastation of Gaza and the Taliban ...
The Orlando Advocate1d
‘By women, for women’: 15 years of the UN agency championing gender equality
The Advocate highlights social inequality through original stories and opinions, and content generated by fellow NNPA and ...
Afghanistan’s pioneering female tour guides are opening up the country for tourists
One of those visitors is Australian Suzanne Sandral. She originally wanted to see Afghanistan in the 1960s but the pressures ...
Female tour guides in Afghanistan lead women-only groups as some travelers return
Afghanistan is seeing the emergence of local female tour guides, in a country whose Taliban government imposes the world’s harshest restrictions on women and girls ...
Surviving the ‘Taliban kill list’: Two sisters recall their escape
Two Afghan sisters on the Taliban's "kill list" in August 2021 recall what it was like trying to flee from the war-torn ...
Religion News Service3d
With no access to education beyond the 6th grade, girls in Afghanistan turn to religious schools
The country’s Taliban government banned girls from secondary school and university three years ago — the only country in the ...
Human Rights Watch4dOpinion
Afghan Women Continue to Fight for Bodily Autonomy
Since July 16, the Taliban have arrested dozens of women and girls in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, for allegedly violating ...