By December 2022, all universities in Afghanistan had closed their doors to women.
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What’s happening in Afghanistan is not simply gender discrimination; rather, it’s pushing an entire gender out of public systems altogether in a policy of gender apartheid by the ruling Taliban.
Three years ago the Taliban promised it had changed. It is now clear that it hasn’t.
It’s a fairytale ride for Afghanistan’s talented cricketers. But women remain excluded.
Khorasan is globally associated with terrorism, but people from Afghanistan are out to challenge that assumption.
Two years after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan the west is not doing enough to help exiled leaders form a unified opposition.
Afghanistan’s new rulers have broken their pledge to uphold women’s rights.
Research into 70 new Taliban policies to control women and girls shows the extremist, misogynistic group might be using different tactics, but it still poses grave dangers to Afghan society.
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