Tag Archives: ‘I may as well be dead’: Afghan women outraged by new Taliban restrictions on work

The Afghan Taliban’s effective ban on women working sank in on Monday, sparking rage over the dramatic loss of rights after millions of female teachers and girls were barred from secondary school education. After pledging a softer version of their brutal and repressive regime of the 1990s, the group is tightening its control of women’s freedoms one month after seizing power. “I may as …

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