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UN mission in Afghanistan concerned by Taliban's arrest of Afghan women and girls for dress code violations (LINK) 21 July 2025

— In May 2022, the Taliban government issued a decree calling for women to show only their eyes and recommending they wear a head-to-toe burqa. The U.N. mission in Afghanistan said it was concerned by the arrest of "numerous" women and girls in Kabul between July 16 and 19, who authorities claimed had not followed instructions on wearing the hijab, or the Islamic headscarf. "These incidents serve to further isolate women and girls, contribute to a climate of fear, and erode public trust," the mission added, without details including the number of arrests or the ages and where they have been held.

For the first time in modern history a capital city is on the verge of running dry: nearly half Kabul's boreholes have already gone dry (LINK) 19 July 2025

ICC issues sealed arrest warrants for Taliban Supreme Leader and Chief Justice for persecuting women and girls as a crime against humanity (LINK) — ground.news: 226 media reports (LINK) 9 July 2025

The U.N. General Assembly adopts a resolution over U.S. objections calling on Afghanistan's Taliban rulers to reverse their worsening oppression of women and girls and eliminate all terrorist organizations (LINK) 7 July 2025

Russia becomes first country to recognise Afghanistan's Taliban government: Supreme Court lifted group's 'terrorist' designation in April, as Moscow seeks normalization in bid for regional clout (LINK) 3 July 2025

Heartbreaking truth behind 'Afghan girl' photo (LINK) 30 June 2025

At least 1.2 million Afghans forced to return from Iran and Pakistan this year, says UN (LINK) — ground.news: 20 media reports (LINK) 28 June 2025

Ex-Taliban commander pleads guilty in killings of US soldiers and kidnapping of journalists: Haji Najibullah was previously charged in 2020 with kidnapping David Rohde, a former Reuters correspondent. (LINK) — ground.news: 30 media reports (LINK) — 25 April 2025

eurasiareview: The deepening deterioration of the situation in Afghanistan — analysis. — 9 March 2025 (LINK)

The 'political landscape' of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan is in increasing turmoil. A deep divide has emerged between the Kandahari group led by Taliban Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada and the Haqqani Group led by Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani. — 4 March 2025 (LINK)

Afghan women's radio station to resume broadcasts after Taliban say they're lifting suspension. — 23 February 2025 (LINK)

— Radio Begum launched on International Women's Day in March 2021, five months before the Taliban seized power amid the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops. The station's content is produced entirely by Afghan women. Its sister satellite channel, Begum TV, operates from France and broadcasts programs that cover the Afghan school curriculum from seventh to 12th grade. The Taliban have banned education for women and girls in the country beyond grade six.

Afghanistan interpreter's abduction and death: a double betrayal. — 21 February 2025 (LINK)

Taliban say Pakistani airstrikes killed 46 people in eastern Afghanistan, mostly women and children, and most victims were refugees from the Waziristan region. — 24 December 2024 (LINK) — ground.news: 250 media reports (LINK)

UN experts reject ban on medical training for women as 'totally unjustifiable'. — 9 December 2024 (LINK)

— "If implemented, the reported new ban will be yet another inexplicable, totally unjustifiable blow to the health, dignity, and futures of Afghan women and girls. It will constitute yet another direct assault on the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan," the experts said.

— "It will undoubtedly lead to unnecessary suffering, illness, and possibly deaths of Afghan women and children, now and in future generations, which could amount to femicide."

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Afghan women 'banned from midwife and nurse education' in Taliban's new decree: Khaama Press. — 4 December 2024 (LINK) — ground.news: 39 media reports (LINK)

Afghanistan: UN urges de facto authorities to protect media freedom. — 26 November 2024 (LINK)

Jury awards three Abu Ghraib detainees $42 million, holds contractor responsible. — 12 November 2024 (LINK) — ground.news: 106 media reports (LINK)

Taliban will attend the COP29 climate summit in Baku, marking their first participation since 2021. — 11 November 2024 (LINK) — ground.news: 104 media reports (LINK)

Taliban's latest ban: prohibiting women from praying aloud in the presence of each other. — 30 October 2024 (LINK)

Hundreds of Afghan soldiers to be allowed to relocate to UK after U-turn — 14 October 2024 (LINK)

Switzerland deports two convicted Afghan nationals, the first since 2019, citing security concerns — 13 October 2024 (LINK) — ground.news: 11 media reports (LINK)

Tens of thousands of court divorce rulings, including for child brides, revoked since the Taliban took control of the country three years ago this month — 28 September 2024 (LINK)

UN OHCHR: Afghanistan's "repressive law" must be immediately repealed — 27 August 2024 (LINK)

— "The newly-adopted law on 'Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice' by the de facto authorities in Afghanistan cements policies that completely erase women's presence in public &mdash silencing their voices, and depriving them of their individual autonomy, effectively attempting to render them into faceless, voiceless shadows."

— "This is utterly intolerable. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk calls for this egregious law to be immediately repealed. The long list of repressive provisions that this law imposes on women reinforces a number of existing restrictions that violate their fundamental human rights, including their freedom of movement, their freedom of expression, and their right to live free from discrimination." — news release

— "The law further tightens the grip on the media sector, with a ban on publishing images of human beings, presumably also those of de facto officials. We call on the de facto authorities to immediately repeal this legislation, which is in clear violation of Afghanistan's obligations under international human rights law."

Taliban vice and virtue laws provide 'distressing vision' for Afghanistan, warns UN envoy — 25 August 2024 (LINK) — ground.news: 20 media reports (LINK)

Taliban publish vice laws that ban women's voices and bare faces in public — 21 August 2024 (LINK) — ground.news: 39 media reports (LINK)

Former Afghan prosecutors hunted down, killed by Taliban 3 years after US withdrawal — 17 August 2024 (LINK)

— An additional 100 prosecutors have been injured since the U.S. withdrawal, and another 50 are believed to be "locked up in Taliban prisons and their fate is unknown". About 1,000 of the 3,800 prosecutors believed to be in practice prior to August 2021 are thought to have fled to Europe. About 500 prosecutors may have fled to Pakistan, Tajikistan and Iran, where they live in "a state of despair" amid harassment and forced deportations.

35 die, 230 injured in storm that brought heavy rainfall to eastern Afghanistan, Taliban says — 15 July 2024 (LINK) — ground.news: 32 media reports — (LINK)

Pakistan says 1.45 million Afghans can stay for another year following UN refugee chief’s visit — 10 July 2024 (LINK) — ground.news: 19 media reports — (LINK)

First talks with the Taliban since takeover — no women allowed: At the Taliban government’s insistence, no civil society representatives were in the room with the Taliban officials, meaning no women from Afghanistan were included, prompting criticism from rights groups and activists. UN officials met Afghan civil society groups separately. — BBC — 2 July 2024 (LINK)

Taliban delegation attends UN meeting in Qatar on Afghanistan, women excluded (video) — france24 — 30 June 2024 (LINK) — ground.news: 26 media reports — (LINK)

Pakistani Taliban announce a 3-day cease-fire with security forces on Eid al-Adha holiday — ground.news: 12 media reports — 16 June 2024 (LINK)

UN envoy defends failure to include Afghan women in upcoming meeting with the Taliban in Qatar — AP — 21 June 2024 (LINK) — ground.news: 16 media reports (LINK)

— U.N. special envoy Roza Otunbayeva was pummeled with questions Friday from journalists about criticism from human rights organizations at the omission of Afghan women from the meeting in Qatar's capital, Doha, on June 30 and July 1. U.N. political chief Rosemary DiCarlo will chair the meeting, Otunbayeva said. She will attend, and a few of the 22 special envoys on Afghanistan who are women will also be there.

— Just before the Doha gathering, there will be a hybrid meeting with Afghan civil society representatives from inside and outside the country, Otunbayeva said. And on July 2, immediately after Doha, "we'll be meeting all the civil society people." Otunbayeva said the upcoming gathering will be the first face-to-face meeting between the Taliban and the envoys and will focus on what she said were "the most important acute issues of today" — private business and banking, and counter-narcotics policy. Both are about women, she said, and the envoys will tell the Taliban, "Look, it doesn't work like this. We should have women around the table. We should provide them also access to businesses." She added that "if there are, let's say, 5 million addicted people in Afghanistan, more than 30% are women."

The Taliban publicly flogs 63 people including women accused of crimes. The UN condemns it — ground.news main source: AP, 16 media reports — 5 June 2024 (LINK)

Islamic State claims responsibility for gun attack that killed three Spanish tourists in Afghanistan, says shot Christian tourists and Shiite companions shopping in Bamiyan's bazaar in central Afghanistan — ground.news: 71 media reports — 17 May 2024 (LINK)

Flash floods in northern Afghanistan killed more than 300 people, WPF says — cbsnews — 11 May 2024 (LINK)

Afghanistan's only female diplomat resigns in India after gold smuggling allegations — ground.news: 26 media reports — 4 May 2024 (LINK)

An old land mine found by children near an Afghanistan village explodes, killing 9 — ground.news: 22 media reports — 1 April 2024 (LINK)

Taliban hold third public execution in five days as thousands watch at a stadium in northern Afghanistan — ground.news: 20 media reports — 26 February 2024 (LINK)

2 Afghans who were detained at Guantanamo Bay for 14 years have been released from house arrest since 2017 in Oman, the Taliban say — ground.news: 18 media reports — 12 February 2024 (LINK)

nypost: The UN is paying illegals using US taxpayer cash The UN, with the helping hands of 248 named non-governmental organizations, is indeed giving debit cards to illegal migrants — funded, in large part, by US taxpayers. — nypost — 23 January 2024 (LINK)

Almost 100,000 Afghan children are in dire need of support, 3 months after earthquakes: UNICEF — ground.news: 26 media reports — 15 January 2024 (LINK)

A minibus exploded in a mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhood in Afghanistan's capital of Kabul killing at least two civilians and wounding 14 others, a Taliban official said — ground.news: 28 media reports — 6 January 2024 (LINK)

Gunmen kill 6 barbers in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban near the Afghan border — ground.news: 17 media reports — 2 January 2024 (LINK)