The Afghanistan - Taliban Conflict
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Kurt off them percs
With Booker T wife
Probably caught Iran cutting through their country.
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daemonova
hit it, & I didn't go Erykah Badu crazy, #yallmad
They just defeated the most powerful empire that ever existed, they got big heads and bigger balls, if I was Iran I wouldn't f with them.
Low key New Taliban been doing their thing
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Low key New Taliban been doing their thing
What are the implications here?
Lootha VanDraws
'The Night I Fell in Love' is the GOAT R&B album
Taliban on the rise, and you don't want no problems with those guys...
Report: ‘Disturbing Surge’ in Afghan Female Suicides, Attempted Suicides
‘We are witnessing a moment where growing numbers of women and girls see death as preferable to living under the current circumstances,’ a UN official has been quoted as saying
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Report: ‘Disturbing Surge’ in Afghan Female Suicides, Attempted Suicides
August 28, 2023 9:45 AM
FILE - A Taliban fighter stands guard as women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 23, 2023.
There has been a “disturbing surge” in the number of female suicides and attempted female suicides in Afghanistan since the Taliban took control in 2021, according to a report by British newspaper The Guardian.
The Taliban government has not published any statistics on the phenomenon and has forbidden health care workers from sharing the numbers, the newspaper said. However, the report said health care providers agreed to privately share the information from August 2021 to August 2022 “to highlight an urgent public health crisis” that has made Afghanistan one of the few locations in the world where more women than men kill themselves.
During the year-long period, “females made up more than three-quarter of recorded suicide deaths and treated survivors,” The Guardian reported.
Life for women in Afghanistan has become extremely restrictive and health care providers and human rights activists “have raised the alarm” about the staggering suicide surge among Afghanistan’s women.
Recently, the Taliban began barring women from a national park because they were not wearing their headscarves correctly. The Taliban have already barred women from continuing their education after elementary school, prohibited them from most work and even ordered the closure of beauty salons.
“We are witnessing a moment where growing numbers of women and girls see death as preferable to living under the current circumstances,” Alison Davidian, the country representative for U.N. Women, told The Guardian.
the Taliban/Afghan militias caught less than 3k bodies in 20 years...
afghanistan was a political loss... not a military one... their military is trash... Iran would wipe them in any confrontation
richaveli83
Veteran
Low key New Taliban been doing their thing
That car looks clean from the outside but fukk those medieval goat fukkers.
Diunx
Probably drunk
Political, military, it doesn't matter, they won and the US lost.
you're trying to compare the US choosing to leave to Iran losing a war...
so the type of victory does matter
Iran is not going to have the same issues
Taliban bans women from training as nurses and midwives
This was the only path left for girls who had been excluded from other fields, say students in Afghanistan
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Taliban bans women from training as nurses and midwives
This was the only path left for girls who had been excluded from other fields, say students in Afghanistan
George Johnson New Delhi
04 December 2024 3:22pm GMT
An Afghan woman is checked by a nutritionist at a clinic run by the World Food Programme in Kabul Credit: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo
The Taliban has banned women from training as nurses and midwives in Afghanistan, striking another blow to female health and education.
The ban was announced on Monday during a meeting in Kabul by officials from the ministry of public health, acting on orders from Haibatullah Akhundzada, the Taliban supreme leader.
The directive blocks women from attending medical training institutes and applies to both private and government-run institutions.
It means women will no longer be able to enter work in critical fields including midwifery, nursing, dentistry and laboratory sciences, effective from Dec 3, further restricting opportunities for Afghan women.
Afghan female students gather outside the Omid Institute of Health Sciences in Kabul Credit: WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP/Getty Images
One doctor, who works in a blood bank in a public hospital in Kabul, where women have been barred from continuing their laboratory technician course, said that Bakht-ur-Rehman Sharafat, deputy minister of health, informed the heads of all medical institutes about the Taliban’s order to stop girls’ education in both private and public institutes.
For many women, medical education had been a final hope for professional advancement after previous bans curtailed access to other educational opportunities.
Zainab, a dentistry student at a private institute in Kabul, said the ban was devastating. “This was the only path left for girls who had been excluded from other fields. Now, even that has been taken away,” she said.
Videos began appearing on X, formerly Twitter, and other social media platforms from Kabul, Badakhshan and Faryab. In each, the same scenes: female students standing outside their institutes, pleading with Taliban officials, only to be turned away.
In one video, female students at the Badakhshan Medical Institute in Afghanistan are seen crying in the hallways and singing in Persian: “Come, oh sky, and weep with me.”
In another video students are seen weeping as they left classrooms, some quietly singing as a form of protest. “You aren’t weak, calm down,” a female instructor consoles her students in one of the videos.
A Taliban official at a medical college in Afghanistan’s Kapisa province announces in another clip that women are no longer allowed to continue their studies amid cries and sobs from the students.
“Attending these classes was a lifeline for us. Now, we don’t know what to do,” one student said, adding that staff warned them not to gather outside for fear of attracting Taliban officials.
Women will no longer be able to attend medical training institutes Credit: SAMIULLAH POPAL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
The ban has immediate and long-term implications for Afghanistan’s already strained healthcare system.
The country needs thousands more midwives and nurses to meet its population’s needs, according to international health organisations.
It faces one of the highest maternal mortality rates globally, with the World Health Organisation reporting 620 deaths per 100,000 live births.
Female healthcare workers are critical to addressing this crisis, especially as male doctors are often prohibited from treating female patients.
A health ministry official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the decision would worsen staffing shortages.
“We are already struggling to provide adequate care, particularly for women,” they said. “This ban will make things even worse.”
The ban was called an ‘affront to women’s right to education’ Credit: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo
The Taliban’s restrictions on women’s education have drawn widespread condemnation.
Robert C dikkson, the United Kingdom’s chargé d’affaires to Afghanistan, said he was concerned about the news reports that Taliban will deny medical education to women in Afghanistan.
“This is another affront to women’s right to education and will further restrict access to healthcare for Afghan women and children,” he wrote on X.
An outdoor girls’ classroom in Torkham, Afghanistan Credit: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo
Winston Peters, New Zealand’s foreign minister, said that the country supports international efforts to hold the Taliban accountable for their treatment of women.
Heather Barr, the interim women’s rights deputy director of Human Rights Watch, said the new decree will result in unnecessary pain, misery, sickness, and death for the women forced to go without healthcare, as there will not be female healthcare workers to treat them.
While the Taliban has claimed that these bans are intended to align education with Islamic principles, critics argue that the policies are aimed at systematically excluding women from public life.
‘Gender apartheid’
Observers have described the restrictions as “gender apartheid”, noting that they undermine not just women’s rights but the broader development of Afghan society.
For many Afghan women, the ban represents yet another obstacle in a series of systematic exclusions. “This is not just about education,” a healthcare expert said.
“It’s about the survival of women in Afghanistan, who are being left without access to care, support, or opportunities for the future.”
They just keep going further and further backwards
