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"Every home becomes a prison:" Now, Taliban stops Afghan women from sightseeing (www.firstpost.com)

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“Not content with depriving girls and women of education, employment, and free movement, the Taliban also want to take from them parks and sport and now even nature, as we see from this latest ban on women visiting Band-e-Amir,” Human Rights Watch’s Associate Women’s Rights Director Heather Barr says.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I wish I had a way to filter all of these posts about how shitty Afghanistan is.

That place is never going to change.