Taliban reject UN concerns over laws banning women's voices and bare faces in public
The Taliban is rejecting concerns and criticism raised by the United Nations over new vice and virtue laws that include a ban on womenโs voices and bare faces in public.
Taliban vice and virtue laws provide 'distressing vision' for Afghanistan, warns UN envoy
A top UN official is warning that the Talibanโs new vice and virtue laws provide a distressing vision for Afghanistanโs future.
UN chief: Legal equality for women could take 300 years as backlash rises against women's rights
The United Nations chief says legal equality for women could take centuries as the fight for gender equality has become an uphill struggle against rank discrimination and gross human human rights abuses.
Afghan schoolgirls are finishing sixth grade in tears. Under Taliban rule, their education is over
Afghan schoolgirls are weeping as they finish sixth grade, knowing their education is over.
As mental health worsens among Afghanistan's women, the UN is asked to declare 'gender apartheid'
The U_N_โs most powerful body is being asked to support governments seeking to legally declare the crackdown by Afghanistanโs Taliban rulers on women and girls โgender apartheid."
UN warns Taliban that restrictions on Afghan women and girls make recognition `nearly impossible'
The U.N. envoy for Afghanistan is warning the countryโs Taliban rulers that international recognition as the countryโs legitimate government will remain โnearly impossibleโ unless they lift severe restrictions on women and girlsโ education and employment.