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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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[–] DragonTypeWyvern 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

America should have armed and trained the women of Afghanistan, not the men.

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago

There's some truth to that. They have something to fight for, the men were fighting to free their own sex slaves and ban their own vices, no wonder they weren't motivated.