New generation of Afghan women shift from burqa
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鈥檚 oppression of women...
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Afghan women can seek refugee status based on nationality, gender: EU
The European Court of Justice ruled Friday that nationality and gender are 鈥榮ufficient鈥� for an EU country to grant asylum to Afghan women, who have seen their rights stifled under Taliban rule.
Afghan women filmed singing in protest of ban on their voices
An Afghan woman sings in a video showing just a sliver of her face, one of dozens of women taking part in an online protest against a law that bans women from raising their voices in public...