Taliban bans the sound of women’s voices singing or reading in public

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America made Afghanistan like that.

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Is this just Kabul? I remember watching a documentary about Afghanistan and it said that Kabul and maybe one other city was Westernised and like the rest of the country remained in its tribes and klans like it always has done. Prior to the coup in the early 70's.
 

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Is this just Kabul? I remember watching a documentary about Afghanistan and it said that Kabul and maybe one other city was Westernised and like the rest of the country remained in its tribes and klans like it always has done. Prior to the coup in the early 70's.
That wasn't widespread. You're right. It was Kabul and a handful of cities that had that metropolitan life.
 

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Taliban bans women from training as nurses and midwives​


This was the only path left for girls who had been excluded from other fields, say students in Afghanistan

George Johnson New Delhi

04 December 2024 3:22pm GMT

An Afghan woman is checked by a nutritionist at a clinic run by the World Food Programme in Kabul

An Afghan woman is checked by a nutritionist at a clinic run by the World Food Programme in Kabul Credit: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo

The Taliban has banned women from training as nurses and midwives in Afghanistan, striking another blow to female health and education.

The ban was announced on Monday during a meeting in Kabul by officials from the ministry of public health, acting on orders from Haibatullah Akhundzada, the Taliban supreme leader.

The directive blocks women from attending medical training institutes and applies to both private and government-run institutions.

It means women will no longer be able to enter work in critical fields including midwifery, nursing, dentistry and laboratory sciences, effective from Dec 3, further restricting opportunities for Afghan women.

Afghan female students gather outside the Omid Institute of Health Sciences in Kabul

Afghan female students gather outside the Omid Institute of Health Sciences in Kabul Credit: WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP/Getty Images

One doctor, who works in a blood bank in a public hospital in Kabul, where women have been barred from continuing their laboratory technician course, said that Bakht-ur-Rehman Sharafat, deputy minister of health, informed the heads of all medical institutes about the Taliban’s order to stop girls’ education in both private and public institutes.

For many women, medical education had been a final hope for professional advancement after previous bans curtailed access to other educational opportunities.

Zainab, a dentistry student at a private institute in Kabul, said the ban was devastating. “This was the only path left for girls who had been excluded from other fields. Now, even that has been taken away,” she said.

Videos began appearing on X, formerly Twitter, and other social media platforms from Kabul, Badakhshan and Faryab. In each, the same scenes: female students standing outside their institutes, pleading with Taliban officials, only to be turned away.

In one video, female students at the Badakhshan Medical Institute in Afghanistan are seen crying in the hallways and singing in Persian: “Come, oh sky, and weep with me.”

In another video students are seen weeping as they left classrooms, some quietly singing as a form of protest. “You aren’t weak, calm down,” a female instructor consoles her students in one of the videos.

A Taliban official at a medical college in Afghanistan’s Kapisa province announces in another clip that women are no longer allowed to continue their studies amid cries and sobs from the students.

“Attending these classes was a lifeline for us. Now, we don’t know what to do,” one student said, adding that staff warned them not to gather outside for fear of attracting Taliban officials.

Women will no longer be able to attend medical training institutes

Women will no longer be able to attend medical training institutes Credit: SAMIULLAH POPAL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock

The ban has immediate and long-term implications for Afghanistan’s already strained healthcare system.

The country needs thousands more midwives and nurses to meet its population’s needs, according to international health organisations.

It faces one of the highest maternal mortality rates globally, with the World Health Organisation reporting 620 deaths per 100,000 live births.

Female healthcare workers are critical to addressing this crisis, especially as male doctors are often prohibited from treating female patients.

A health ministry official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the decision would worsen staffing shortages.

“We are already struggling to provide adequate care, particularly for women,” they said. “This ban will make things even worse.”

The ban was called an 'affront to women's right to education'

The ban was called an ‘affront to women’s right to education’ Credit: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo

The Taliban’s restrictions on women’s education have drawn widespread condemnation.

Robert C dikkson, the United Kingdom’s chargé d’affaires to Afghanistan, said he was concerned about the news reports that Taliban will deny medical education to women in Afghanistan.

“This is another affront to women’s right to education and will further restrict access to healthcare for Afghan women and children,” he wrote on X.

An outdoor girls' classroom in Torkham, Afghanistan

An outdoor girls’ classroom in Torkham, Afghanistan Credit: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo

Winston Peters, New Zealand’s foreign minister, said that the country supports international efforts to hold the Taliban accountable for their treatment of women.

Heather Barr, the interim women’s rights deputy director of Human Rights Watch, said the new decree will result in unnecessary pain, misery, sickness, and death for the women forced to go without healthcare, as there will not be female healthcare workers to treat them.

While the Taliban has claimed that these bans are intended to align education with Islamic principles, critics argue that the policies are aimed at systematically excluding women from public life.


‘Gender apartheid’​


Observers have described the restrictions as “gender apartheid”, noting that they undermine not just women’s rights but the broader development of Afghan society.

For many Afghan women, the ban represents yet another obstacle in a series of systematic exclusions. “This is not just about education,” a healthcare expert said.

“It’s about the survival of women in Afghanistan, who are being left without access to care, support, or opportunities for the future.”
 

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The Taliban say they will close all NGOs employing Afghan women​


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Taliban fighters stand guard in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Dec. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Updated 3:53 PM EST, December 30, 2024

The Taliban say they will close all national and foreign nongovernmental groups in Afghanistan employing women, the latest crackdown on women’s rights since they took power in August 2021.

The announcement comes two years after they told NGOs to suspend the employment of Afghan women, allegedly because they didn’t wear the Islamic headscarf correctly.

In a letter published on X Sunday night, the Economy Ministry warned that failure to comply with the latest order would lead to NGOs losing their license to operate in Afghanistan.

The United Nations said the space for women in Afghanistan has shrunk dramatically in the last two years and reiterated its call for the Taliban to reverse the restrictions.

“This really impacts how we can provide life saving humanitarian assistance to all the people in Afghanistan,” U.N. associate spokesperson Florencia Soto Nino-Martinez said. “And obviously we are very concerned by the fact that we are talking about a country where half the population’s rights are being denied and are living in poverty, and many of them, not just women, are facing a humanitarian crisis.”

The Economy Ministry said it was responsible for the registration, coordination, leadership and supervision of all activities carried out by national and foreign organizations.

The government was once again ordering the stoppage of all female work in institutions not controlled by the Taliban, according to the letter.

“In case of lack of cooperation, all activities of that institution will be canceled and the activity license of that institution, granted by the ministry, will also be canceled.”

It’s the Taliban’s latest attempt to control or intervene in NGO activity.

Earlier this month, the U.N. Security Council heard that an increasing proportion of female Afghan humanitarian workers were prevented from doing their work even though relief work remains essential.

According to Tom Fletcher, a senior U.N. official, the proportion of humanitarian organizations reporting that their female or male staff were stopped by the Taliban’s morality police has also increased.

The Taliban deny they are stopping aid agencies from carrying out their work or interfering with their activities.

They have already barred women from many jobs and most public spaces, and also excluded them from education beyond sixth grade.

In another development, the Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada has ordered that buildings should not have windows looking into places where a woman might sit or stand.

According to a four-clause decree posted on X late Saturday, the order applies to new buildings as well as existing ones.

The United Nations also called for a reversal of this restriction, Soto Nino-Martinez said.

The decree said windows should not overlook or look into areas like yards or kitchens. Where a window looks into such a space then the person responsible for that property must find a way to obscure this view to “remove harm,” by installing a wall, fence or screen.

Municipalities and other authorities must supervise the construction of new buildings to avoid installing windows that look into or over residential properties, the decree added.

A spokesman for the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing was not immediately available for comment on Akhundzada’s instructions.
 

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Trillions of taxpayers dollars spent on these foockin loosers. Mother fukk the whole Bush Administration
 

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Trillions of taxpayers dollars spent on these foockin loosers. Mother fukk the whole Bush Administration

their country doesn't look like trillions were spent on it but the over 2 decades of quarterly reports of many companies within the military industrial complex does.
 
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