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Afghanistan poppy cultivation grows 19 percent despite ban: UN
Opium cultivation rose by 19 percent in Afghanistan this year, the UN reported Wednesday, despite a Taliban government ban ...
Opium production in Afghanistan rose despite ban: UN report
The Taliban banned the cultivation of narcotics in 2022, causing a drop in opium production last year. However, this year it rose by 19%, according to a report by the UNODC.
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Canada condemns latest rollback of women's rights by Taliban regime in Afghanistan
Canada's Special Representative to Afghanistan David Sproule is condemning the Taliban's latest curtailment of women's rights ...
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Sediq Sediqqi: Canada must redouble efforts to ensure foreign aid is not appropriated by the Taliban
In its latest edict, the Taliban banned women hearing each other’s voices in public. ...
The Taliban say blasts and gunfire in Iran targeted and killed at least 2 Afghans earlier this month
A Taliban spokesman says explosions and gunfire in Iran targeted and killed at least two Afghans earlier this month.
After fleeing Taliban and abuse, Afghan woman in Canada for 8 years told she's being deported soon
Frozan Hassan Zai has spent eight years building a community in Canada after escaping the Netherlands with her two children.
Taliban prohibits Afghan women from speaking to each other: ‘System of gender apartheid’
Even when an adult female prays and another female passes by, she must not pray loudly enough for them to hear,” he said in his message.
Banned, ignored and still in exile: The story of the Afghanistan women's cricket team who fled for safety
Women in Afghanistan have been banned from sports since Taliban regained control in 2021; Women cricketers have urged the ICC ...
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The Azadi Briefing: Taliban Detains Afghan Political Commentator
Jawed Mohmand, an Afghan academic and political commentator, is the latest figure to be detained by the Taliban as part of ...
Taliban Bans Afghan Women From Praying or Reciting Aloud in Public
This ban is a continuation of the Taliban's extensive restrictions on women's rights, aiming to reduce their public ...
Has the Taliban banned women from speaking?
Rambling' message about 'bizarre' restriction joins series of recent decrees that amount to silencing of Afghanistan's women ...
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Can’t work, sing, travel, study: All the ways the Taliban are restricting lives of women in Afghanistan
Women in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan are currently barred from most of the ordinary activities their counterparts elsewhere in the world see as their natural right – studying, working, going to a salon ...