Taliban closes all NGOs employing women, bans some windows

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/taliban-ngos-afghanistan-women-1.7420073

The Taliban say they will close all national and foreign nongovernmental groups in Afghanistan employing women. It comes two years after they told NGOs to suspend the employment of Afghan women, allegedly because they didn't wear the Islamic headscarf correctly.

In a letter published on X Sunday night, the Economy Ministry warned that failure to comply with the latest order would lead to NGOs losing their license to operate in Afghanistan.

The ministry said it was responsible for the registration, co-ordination, leadership and supervision of all activities carried out by national and foreign organizations.

The government was once again ordering the stoppage of all female work in institutions not controlled by the Taliban, according to the letter.

"In case of lack of co-operation, all activities of that institution will be cancelled and the activity licence of that institution, granted by the ministry, will also be cancelled."



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In another development, the Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada has ordered that buildings should not have windows looking into places where a woman might sit or stand.

According to a four-clause decree posted on X late Saturday, the order applies to new buildings as well as existing ones.

Windows should not overlook or look into areas like yards or kitchens. Where a window looks into such a space, the person responsible for that property must find a way to obscure this view to "remove harm" by installing a wall, fence or screen.

Municipalities and other authorities must supervise the construction of new buildings to avoid installing windows that look into or over residential properties, according to the decree.

A spokesperson for the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing was not immediately available for comment on Akhundzada's instructions.

 

[lawtig02]

I may be totally wrong about this, but I have a vague hope that the tenuous situation the Iranian regime finds itself in could work to the advantage of the anti-Taliban elements in Afghanistan over the next few years. I'd be more confident about that if we had a competent advocate of global freedom in the White House, but this may be one of those things where global dynamics transcend Trump's innumerable inadequacies.

 

[Batt Boy]

Saleh continues to try. Multiple provinces are no under Taliban control. The Panjshir remains deadly for Taliban.

 

[UNCatTech]

I may be totally wrong about this, but I have a vague hope that the tenuous situation the Iranian regime finds itself in could work to the advantage of the anti-Taliban elements in Afghanistan over the next few years. I'd be more confident about that if we had a competent advocate of global freedom in the White House, but this may be one of those things where global dynamics transcend Trump's innumerable inadequacies.

Transcending trump's innumerable inadequacies is quite a challenge.

Plus, trump's definition of freedom probably doesn't align with most people.

I mean, he or his supporters have shown that they believe in one religion and would probably do away with the freedom to choose a different religion, if possible, this would probably align more with the taliban than the anti-taliban.

Additionally, trump and his followers are already attacking women's medical freedoms, they would probably continue in their removal of women's freedoms and their move toward the 1800's if possible, that seems to align more with the taliban that what you and I would consider freedom.

Yea, I don't really hold out much hope for a trump administration helping to steer this in the right direction.

Like everything else, I guess we will see.

 

[UNCatTech]

Saleh continues to try. Multiple provinces are no under Taliban control. The Panjshir remains deadly for Taliban.

Nice sig line.

 

[Mulberry Heel]

One of the best things (maybe the best) we did in our nearly two decades in Afghanistan was to promote women's rights and set up schools to educate Afghan girls - some of them were in one-room, dirt-floored buildings, but yet those girls still came and got an education. It is depressing that as soon as we left the Taliban immediately returned and, despite its early promises to "behave" in a more civilized fashion, they have steadily taken away all of the rights that women won - including shutting down nearly all of the girls schools we opened - and have returned women to the legal-property-of-men status that they held before we arrived. This is also the same government that deliberately destroyed one of their nation's historic and cultural treasures - massive, ancient statues of Buddha on a cliff - with artillery and dynamite solely because it featured another religion besides Islam (or their medieval version of it). A human tragedy for the women of Afghanistan.