The Taliban authorities in Afghanistan ordered female patients, caretakers and staff to wear a burka – a full Islamic veil - ...
The report comes after women were left laying in rubble for hours, waiting for female rescuers following an earthquake.
Women not covered from head to toe are being prevented from entering public health facilities in western Afghanistan. The ...
The Taliban in Afghanistan’s western province of Herat have recently banned women doctors, patients, and healthcare workers ...
Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching the all-enveloping blue burqa with a face mesh that has become a symbol of the Taliban's oppression of women. Since their return to power in ...
Sarah Chateau, MSF’s programme manager in Afghanistan, noted that even women “in need of urgent medical care” had been turned away for not wearing a burka, saying Taliban members were stationed at hos ...
Women in the western Afghan city of Herat say they're being told by Taliban officials that they must wear a burqa to access ...
QUETTA, Pakistan, October 5 (UNHCR) - Lynda Lim has worked with refugees in her native Malaysia. Currently a community services officer with UNHCR in the city of Quetta in south-west Pakistan's ...
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