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A composite photo shows TV anchors Hamed Bahram (left) and Nesar Nabil wearing face masks while reading the news on TOLOnews, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday.

Male Afghan TV anchors cover faces in solidarity with women after a Taliban order

May 24, 2022
Male anchors in Afghanistan are wearing masks on air in solidarity with their female colleagues. This is the latest Taliban order to threaten the freedoms and careers of Afghan women.
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Goats and Soda
Dr. Saleema Rehman stands outside Holy Family Hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. The Afghan refugee of Turkmen origin has won UNHCR's Nansen Award for her work helping refugee moms and babies in Pakistan.

An Afghan refugee girl grew up to be a prize-winning doc — with a little help from dad

Oct 05, 2021
From the moment Saleema Rehman was born, her father believed she was destined to be a doctor. Now she is the winner of a top U.N. award for her work helping displaced women in Pakistan.
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Girls gather at a gender-segregated school in Kabul on Sept. 15. When older secondary students returned to classes, female students were told to wait.

Aid Official Warns Of A Bleak Situation In Afghanistan As Winter Approaches

Sep 24, 2021
The head of Save the Children in Afghanistan says that it has been difficult to operate under the Taliban and its restrictions on women. Without humanitarian aid, he predicts serious casualties ahead.
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Protesters march in Kabul on Wednesday, a day after the Taliban announced their all-male interim government. At left, a protester carries a sign with a photo showing Banu Negar, a pregnant police officer who was killed in front of her relatives early thi

Photos: Afghan Women Are Protesting For Their Rights

Sep 09, 2021
Risking beatings by the Taliban, Afghan women have taken to the streets to protest against the hard-line regime, its new curbs on their rights — and Pakistan's influence in their country.
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Afghans rush to the Hamid Karzai International Airport as they try to flee the Taliban takeover of Kabul.

After The Taliban Takeover Of Kabul, Here's What We Know

Aug 16, 2021
President Biden addressed the nation after images from the airport in the Afghan capital showed desperate people fleeing before the Taliban advance. He said he stands by his decision to withdraw.
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Internally displaced Afghan women from northern provinces, who fled their home due to fighting between the Taliban and Afghan security personnel, receive medical care in a public park in Kabul last Tuesday.

What Women's Advocacy Groups Worldwide Are Doing For Women In Afghanistan

Aug 16, 2021
"Whatever happens in the coming days, we hold true to the idea that women can and should help shape the future of Afghanistan," said one nonprofit, as alarm rises about the Taliban takeover.
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Goats and Soda
Players from the Herat Storm celebrate after winning the championship of the Afghan women's soccer league on October 16 in Kabul.

Women Of Afghanistan Won't Give Up Their Soccer Dreams

Nov 08, 2020
At the championship of the Afghan women's soccer league, players sprint across the field. Hoodie-style hijabs cover their hair. The scene was once unthinkable. But now the players face new obstacles.
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"What makes me hopeful about women's rights in Afghanistan is that women themselves, they have their own voice," Roya Rahmani, Afghanistan's ambassador to the U.S., tells NPR.

Afghan Ambassador Roya Rahmani: 'We Will Not Be Going Back To The Time Prior To 2001'

Mar 08, 2019
Roya Rahmani is Afghanistan's first woman ambassador to the U.S. "What makes me hopeful about women's rights in Afghanistan is that women themselves, they have their own voice," she tells NPR.
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U.S. and Taliban negotiators meet in Doha, Qatar, on Feb. 26.

'This Is Not The Way': Afghan Women Push Back On U.S.-Taliban Peace Talks

Mar 05, 2019
Afghan women and young people say the peace negotiations exclude their wants and needs. "The U.S. is negotiating with a group that's notorious for denying women basic human rights," says one activist.
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Lubna Olayan speaks, alongside then-CEO of pharmaceutical company Novartis, Daniel Vasella, during the 2005 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Lubna Olayan Broke Saudi Arabia's Glass Ceiling. Now She Wants More Women To Work

May 01, 2018
Saudi Arabia's first female CEO discusses what she's done to get more women working.
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Soheila Hamidi, who is hiking on a taped-up ankle that she sprained a week or so earlier, gets assistance from local guide Malang Darya as they scramble over rocks. Darya is also Hamidi's relative.

For Afghan Women Mountaineers, Uphill Battles Begin Before The Climb

Jun 08, 2015
Scaling Afghanistan's tallest mountain will be difficult enough. But Afghan female climbers and their American guides also face civil war, red tape and cultural taboos.
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Afghanistan

The Ascent Of Afghan Women

Mar 31, 2015
Afghanistan is a mountainous land where mountain climbing is rare among men and virtually nonexistent among women. An American is now preparing young Afghan women to scale the country's highest peak.
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