The continuing erasure of women - Afghanistan

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DomesticatedZombie · 07/05/2022 22:48

'...the Ministry for the Prevention of Vice and Promotion of Virtue announced that all women would have to cover their face in public, and laid out an escalating set of punishments for anyone refusing to comply.'

Solidarity with the women of Afghanistan.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-61363969

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DomesticatedZombie · 07/05/2022 23:08

There is this: womenforwomen.org.uk/work-we-do/afghanistan-response

But: 'Afghanistan is currently one of the most difficult countries in the world in which to identify as a woman.' - FRO

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DomesticatedZombie · 07/05/2022 23:05

Are there any, nepeta? I had the impression all NGOs etc would have withdrawn?

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nocoolnamesleft · 07/05/2022 23:01

Heartbreaking.

nepeta · 07/05/2022 22:59

It is a ghastly rerun of the previous era when the Taliban was in power. The same extreme misogynistic and literal interpretation of their religion, the same extreme inequality between the sexes returned, though most of that didn't end in the rural areas even during the last twenty years' pause in Taliban's rule
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It's difficult to know what we outside the country can do in this situation, but I am going to donate all the money I no longer donate to captured human and women's rights organisations to organisations working for women and girls in Afghanistan.

MrsOvertonsWindow · 07/05/2022 22:53

In so many countries, the rights of women to be free self determining individuals are being stripped away, with Afghanistan being one of the most oppressive.
As others have said - heartbreaking.

Penguinsaregreat · 07/05/2022 22:51

Yes heard this today. Words fail me.

Chiefofstaff · 07/05/2022 22:50

It’s heartbreaking. Women and girls are once again invisible in every way.

Discovereads · 07/05/2022 22:49

Heartbreaking.

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