August 2022 Newsletter Newsletter

Amnesty’s report Afghanistan: Death in Slow Motion: Women and Girls under Taliban Rule

This report makes for upsetting, if entirely predictable, reading as the executive summary states:   In less than a year, the Taliban have decimated the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan. Soon after they took control of the country’s government, the Taliban said they were committed to upholding the rights of women and girls. Yet…
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July 2022 Newsletter Newsletter

Amnesty Talk – Women and Girls in Afghanistan

Nigina Istanakzai-Zarifi presented a powerful, passionate and moving statement of the situation now faced by Afghan women and girls, and of the failure of the international community to address it. She said that from the moment the Taliban entered Kabul, life for women and girls changed and, of course, it is worse in the provinces…
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