#afghan women

[djuvlipen]

[bellamonde]

F*** yeah! Need more of this. It’s time for the men to join the cause and fight the repression of women. 

Souce: @theafghan 

[alien-bear]

A perfect illustration of the TRA narcissism:

[thefemaleterrorist]

So no female doctors allowed & not allowed to visit male doctors.. essentially no more healthcare for women then. sick sick SICK

[she-is-ovarit]

Afghan women and girls are being sent to "prison" for "their safety" by the Taliban, who are making Afghan men essentially pinky-swear in front of other Afghan men that they won't hurt women and girls. This comes after girls are forbidden from receiving an education higher than the 6th grade, are barred from entering public spaces, required to abide by a dress code and have a male chaperone at all times.

[queerism1969]

Women in Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan are facing significant challenges in their fight for survival and equality, yet some self-identified feminists, known as TERFs, do not acknowledge or support their struggle and revolution.

[neolithicsheep]

So hey, remember how the current fascist govt in Afghanistan is making it harder and harder for women to participate in public life at all? My friends at Aseel, in partnership with several other orgs, are answering back with the 50 Women In Tech initiative.

This initiative aims to provide 50 Afghan women with a monthly stipend, a workstation, and payment for their internet service for one year so they can do a fellowship with receiving orgs and get into the tech workforce: aseelapp.com/50womenintech

Obviously this isn't something Aseel can do alone. It's a matter of people and organizations around the world pitching in for Afghan women. Aseel's advantage is that they're an Afghan-run tech company trying to help their own community.

You can help by donating, sharing the campaign, or if you're a member of or work for an org that would like to partner with Aseel, reaching out to them to get that partnership moving.

[peopleofafghanistan]

A step back in human rights...

From yesterday, May 7th 2022, women are decreed to cover their faces in public, and if they do not, their father or closest male relative faces punishment.

Image Source: Afghan Women 1978-2006 by Alfred Yaghobzadeh

[khaperai]

Afghan women in the 60s

[sarademian]

THE PATIENCE STONE (2012) dir. Atiq Rahimi

[without-ado]

Steve McCurry l Afghanistan, 1991

A woman feeding doves near the Blue Mosque in Mazar-i-Sharif

[djuvlipen]

[bellamonde]

Update on Afghanistan

Taliban continues its repression of women. 

Here’s a summary of the situation of women in Afghanistan:

Banned from university education

Banned from attending school above 6th grade

Banned from entering parks, bathhouses, gyms, and other public places

Banned from working for domestic or foreign NGOs

Banned from working in the media, including acting

Banned from working outside the home, except for a few sectors and particular roles (which have been ever decreasing)

No women in cabinet and there is no Ministry of Women’s Affairs, effectively removing women’s right to political participation

Women are required to have a male chaperone when they are travelling more than 78 kilometres.

Women have been ordered to wear head-to-toe covering. 

However, brave and courageous Afghan girls and women are protesting. They are taking to the streets, posting their stories online and not giving up. And we have also seen young Afghan men join the fight by walking out from their exams. The women, girls and boys who are protesting are all risking their lives. 

Afghanistan is no longer alone and the women of Afghanistan have millions of women around the world supporting their cause. They will not be silenced. And we have to make sure their voices are amplified. So, please post about Afghanistan and put pressure on your representatives. Taliban is a terrorist regime who has hijacked Afghanistan and is destroying a beautiful people, a beautiful country and an amazing culture. 

Don’t forget, this was Afghanistan in 1970s:

But Afghan women are strong and brave and continue their fight against repression:

And now Afghan men have joined them as well as a group of Afghan university students walked out of their exams. 

Above is a photo of male students at Afghanistan's Nangarhar University walked out of their exams in solidarity with their female peers. 

These brave women and men are endangering their lives. Videos have come out showing Taliban shooting at them with live bullets. But they will not be silenced. Afghan women have been fighting for and demanding their freedom for the past 30 years and they will not stop. And they are no longer alone in this fight. 

#Education is Human Rights

# Women’s Rights = Human Rights

[azural83]

People from first world countries who dismiss middle east's pain because "that's just how things are there" are way too comfortable sharing their lack of empathy

It's funny because the moment something happens to them they're horrified. They aren't used to tragedies, these things "aren't supposed to happen to them"

But our suffering should be normalised huh?

[head-post]

Afghans flee Pakistan en masse: “We’d live here our whole life if they didn’t send us back”

Pakistan is set to begin forcibly removing 1.7 million migrants, many of them Afghans who fled the Taliban, Sky News reports.

Thousands of Afghans are fleeing Pakistan ahead of the government’s Wednesday deadline for undocumented or unregistered foreign nationals to leave the country.

Last month, Pakistan’s interim government threatened to round up, detain and deport those who do not leave the country voluntarily. Islamabad blames Afghan migrants for a surge in armed attacks, mainly in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the southwestern province of Balochistan on the border with Afghanistan.

Learn more HERE

[she-is-ovarit]

"Taliban sending Afghan women to prison to protect them from gender **sex-based violence"

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Taliban officials are sending Afghan women to prison to protect them from gender sex-based violence, according to a U.N. report published Thursday.

Before the Taliban seized power in 2021, there were 23 state-sponsored women protection centers in Afghanistan where survivors of gender sex-based violence could seek refuge. Now there are none, the U.N. report said.

Officials from the Taliban-led administration told the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan that there was no need for such shelters or that they were a Western concept.

The Taliban sends women to prison if they have no male relatives to stay with or if the male relatives are considered unsafe, the report said. Authorities have also asked male relatives for commitments or sworn statements that they will not harm a female relative, inviting local elders to witness the guarantee, it added.

Women are sent to prison for their protection “akin to how prisons have been used to accommodate drug addicts and homeless people in Kabul,” the report said. The Associated Press contacted Taliban-led ministries about where survivors of gender sex-based violence can seek help, what protection measures are in place, and the conviction rates for offenders, but nobody was available for comment.

Women and girls have been increasingly confined to their homes since the Taliban takeover in 2021. They are barred from education beyond sixth grade, including university, public spaces like parks, and most jobs. They are required to take a male chaperone with them on journeys of more than 72 km (45 miles) and follow a dress code. A Taliban decree in July ordered the closure of all beauty salons, one of the few remaining places that women could go to outside the home or family environment. But Afghanistan has, for years, ranked among the worst places in the world to be born female. Millions of girls were out of school before the Taliban takeover for cultural and other reasons. Child marriage, violence and abuse were widespread. Rights groups warned that Taliban rule would enable violence against women and girls and decimate any legal protections for them. Women are no longer working in the judiciary or law enforcement, not allowed to deal with crimes of gender sex-based violence, and only permitted to attend work when called upon by their male supervisors, according to the U.N. report.