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Taliban dissolves Afghan human rights body
Since the hardline Islamists seized power in August they have closed several bodies that protected the freedoms of Afghans, including the electoral commission...
The Taliban has imposed one of the harshest restrictions on Afghanistan's women since seizing power, ordering them to wear the all-covering burqa in public.
The Taliban's supreme leader has ordered a ban on poppy cultivation in Afghanistan, warning that the hardline Islamist government would crack down on farmers.
The Taliban seized power in Afghanistan on 15 August amid the hasty withdrawal of US-led foreign forces, and the country's humanitarian crisis has rapidly worsened since.
US President Joe Biden last week seized $7 billion in assets belonging to the previous Afghan government, aiming to split the funds between compensation for victims of the 11 September 2001, attacks on the United States and desperately needed aid for post-war Afghanistan.
Here are some areas of women's lives impacted by the Taliban's return.
No country has yet recognised the Taliban, with most watching to see how the hardline Islamists – notorious for human rights abuses during their first stint in power – restrict freedoms.
From the COVID pandemic to the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and extreme weather, we look back on the key events of 2021.
The resolution is a first step by the UN after months of wrangling over how to avert a humanitarian catastrophe amid economic meltdown in Afghanistan since the Taliban swept back to power in mid-August.
The country is mired in economic crisis and faces a looming humanitarian catastrophe the UN has called an "avalanche of hunger".
Germany will accept the bulk of the new arrivals, with 25,000, with the Netherlands accepting 3,159, Spain and France 2,500, and other countries lower numbers, according to a document seen by AFP.
The decree centres on marriage and widows' rights, stating "no one can force women to marry by coercion or pressure".
A first session between the two sides was held 9-10 October in the Qatari capital Doha, where US diplomats overseeing relations with Afghanistan transferred after the Taliban takeover.
Most government employees have yet to return to work and many had not been paid for months even before the Taliban captured power, especially rural workers.
The operation against Islamic State-Khorasan -- the local chapter of the jihadist group -- started around midnight in at least four districts of Kandahar province and continued through Monday morning, Taliban provincial police chief Abdul Ghafar Mohammadi told AFP.
After seizing power in August, the hardline Islamist Taliban in September excluded girls from returning to secondary school while ordering boys back to class.
The WHO says the outbreak is particularly concerning since Afghanistan faces surging food insecurity and malnutrition.
Shah Mehmood Qureshi spoke at the opening of the so-called "troika plus" meeting, which included Thomas West, the new US special envoy for Afghanistan. The delegates also met later Thursday with Taliban foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi.
After the Taliban ousted Afghanistan's elected government in August, senior leaders said Afghan women would no longer play cricket, or any other sport. Senior Australian cricketers had indicated they would like to see the Test cancelled if the de facto ban on women's cricket remained in place.