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Taliban bans the sound of women’s voices singing or reading in public
Girls in Afghanistan learn in secret classes operating under a strict security protocol established by a group in Australia.
Erfanullah Abidi
Shut out of school by the Taliban, Afghan girls and women are finding new ways to learn
PARIS, FRANCE - AUGUST 09: B-Girl, Talash of Team of Refugee Olympic?Team competes while wearing a outfit which reads "Free Afghan women" during the B-girls Pre-Qualifier on day fourteen of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Place de la Concorde on August 09, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)
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Olympic breaking athlete disqualified for ‘free Afghan women’ cape
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She wanted ‘the world’ for her daughter. Instead, she got a landmark prison sentence
The city centre of Paris is within the no-go zone, four days before the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, in Paris, France, on July 23, 2024. (Photo by Andrea Savorani Neri/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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ISIS-K’s?online?recruitment poses security threat to West ahead of Olympic Games
Afghan residents shovel mud following flash floods after heavy rainfall at Pesgaran village in Dara district, Panjshir province, Afghanistan on July 15, 2024.
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Deadly floods engulf parts of South Asia as extreme weather devastates vulnerable region
Burqa-clad Afghan women walk on a street with other in a a neighborhood, where mostly Afghan populations, in Karachi, Pakistan, Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. For more than 1 million Afghans who fled war and poverty to Pakistan, these are uncertain times. Since Pakistan announced a crackdown on migrants last year, some 600,000 have been deported and at least a million remain in Pakistan in hiding. They've retreated from public view, abandoning their jobs and rarely leaving their neighborhoods out of fear they could be next. It's harder for them to earn money, rent accommodation, buy food or get medical help because they run the risk of getting caught by police or being reported to authorities by Pakistanis.
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Pakistan extends visas for 1.45 million Afghans but denies deportations on hold
A vendor waits for customers in a clothing store downtown in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, May 26, 2023. The Government of the Taliban prohibited the faces of the mannequins that are in commercial stores from being seen.
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No music, no Western-style haircuts: UN report details life in Afghanistan under Taliban’s moral enforcers