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Bennett Warns Afghan Women Face Growing Costs From Rights Restrictions

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Richard Bennett, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, has warned that restrictions on Afghan women and girls are causing serious social, economic and psychological consequences. On August 17, Bennett said Afghan women and girls must regain their fundamental rights, including access to education and employment, freedom of movement and expression, and the ability to participate fully in public life. Addressing Afghan women dir…
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London, UK. Afghan women are "single" in "the war" carried out against them by the Taliban government, and "abandoned" by the rest of the world, denounces in an interview with AFP Zahra Joya, a journalist who left Kabul when Islamists came to power exactly five years ago. August 15 "is a very painful day" for this 34-year-old woman living in London, where AFP interviewed her on Friday. "I lost everything in my country," says the reporter when sh…

Zahra Joya, 34, was able to flee from the power of the Afghan warriors of God and now lives in London. From exile she struggles tirelessly for women's rights in her home country – this also has to do with her personal history.The horror came back on a normal working day.On August 15, 2021, Afghan journalist Zahra Joya sat in the Kabul office of the online media Rukshana Media, which she founded, and wrote to-do lists for the editors who reported…

Afghan women are "single" in "the war" carried out against them by the Taliban government, and "abandoned" by the rest of the world, says Zahra Joya, a journalist who left Kabul when Islamists resumed power exactly five years ago. August 15 "is a very painful day" for this 34-year-old woman living in London. "I lost everything in my country," the reporter said in an interview with AFP when she recalls "the fear" and "chaos" that reigned during t…

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