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FIFA: Recognize, Support Afghan Women's Team in Exile

Human Rights Watch 26 Mar 2025
The new Sport & Rights Alliance report, titled “‘,” details how the Afghan women’s team, a symbol of women’s empowerment in post-Taliban Afghanistan, was specifically targeted for reprisals when the Taliban returned to power in 2021.
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Countries Press UN Rights Council on Accountability in Afghanistan

Human Rights Watch 26 Mar 2025
Since the Taliban takeover in August 2021, Afghan and international civil society organizations have called on the Human Rights Council to create an independent mechanism with a mandate to investigate ...
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Centre seeks record of Afghan students residing in KP

The News International 26 Mar 2025
Afghan refugee girls leave school at a refugee camp on the outskirts of Islamabad ... The interim Afghan Taliban-led administration in Kabul had earlier requested Islamabad to extend the stay of Afghans residing illegally in in Islamabad and Rawalpindi.
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FIFA urged to recognize Afghanistan women’s football team in exile amid Taliban rule

Jurist 25 Mar 2025
... after being banned in 2021 when the Taliban took power in the country ... Following the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in 2021, Afghan women and girls were banned from playing competitive sports.
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Darkening Taliban rule dims women’s rights, UN Council warns

Korea Times 25 Mar 2025
She recalled, “Afghan women warned that, given the chance, the Taliban would destroy every gain they had fought for since their brutal rule in the 1990s.
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Taliban seeks Japan support for infrastructure, industry development

Kyodo 25 Mar 2025
The Japanese Foreign Ministry has said its official urged the Taliban to respect human rights and "reflect the voice of the Afghan people" when governing during the meeting with the delegation.
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The Tuesday Interview | ‘US betrayed us, Afghanistan under Taliban worse than what India would’ve ...

Deccan Herald 25 Mar 2025
Do Afghans feel betrayed by the successive US governments?</strong></p>.<p>The United States signed the Doha Agreement with the Taliban on February 29, 2020, a deal we view as a calculated coup d .
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Interim Afghan admin urges US to 'move forward,’ end freeze on assets

Anadolu Agency 25 Mar 2025
The Taliban-led interim administration has urged the US to “move forward” and end its freeze on Afghanistan's foreign assets, expressing hope to build “amicable” relations with major powers.
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The high-ranking Taliban wedding where the BRIDE is banned from attending | Daily Mail Online

The Daily Mail 25 Mar 2025
Not so for high-ranking members of the Taliban ... In 2023 during another visit to the country he was arrested by the Taliban and spent eight months in an Afghan prison ... Since the Taliban's return to power ...
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US lifts millions in bounties on senior Taliban officials

West Hawaii Today 25 Mar 2025
... senior Taliban officials, according to Afghan authorities and a senior U.S.
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50 Afghan children sent back through Torkham on ‘humanitarian’ grounds

Dawn 25 Mar 2025
He said that the Afghan border security guards had launched a crackdown on those children the Afghan Taliban seized power in Kabul in 2021, arrested a number of them and enrolled them in local schools ...
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EU: Education is key to Afghanistan’s prosperity and resilience

Khaama Press 24 Mar 2025
Earlier, UNESCO reported that the Taliban’s restrictive policies have blocked access to education for 1.5 million Afghan girls ... Amnesty International has also urged the Taliban to end their discriminatory programs against Afghan women and girls.
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US lifts bounties on Taliban leader Haqqani among three

Dawn 24 Mar 2025
In December last year, his uncle who was then the Afghan Taliban’s acting minister for refugees, Khalil Rahman Haqqani, along with six others were killed in an explosion in the capital Kabul.
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Taliban says it will swap two US prisoners for ‘Bin Laden’s special aide’

The Daily Telegraph 24 Mar 2025
Hibatullah Akhundzada, the Taliban’s supreme leader, is heard in an audio recording saying that “an Afghan is imprisoned in Guantánamo”, according to reports by Amu TV, an independent multimedia channel run by Afghan journalists.
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