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KABUL, March 8 (Reuters) – Afghanistan’s Tolo News channel aired an all-female panel on Wednesday with an all-female audience in its studio to mark International Women’s Day, a rare broadcast since the Taliban took over and many female journalists left the profession. started working off-air.
“Reporters Without Borders” organization’s survey last year showed that more than 75% of female journalists lost their jobs as a result of the Taliban takeover by foreign forces in August 2021.
With surgical masks covering their faces, a panel of three women and a female moderator discussed the position of women in Islam on Tuesday.
“Women have rights from the Islamic point of view… to work, education it is his right to buy,” journalist Asma Khogyani said during the panel.
Last year, the Taliban restricted the admission of most girls to high school and women to university and afghan woman NGO terminated most of its employees.
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Another panelist, former university professor Zakira Nabil, said women will continue to look for ways to study and work.
“Whether you like it or not, there are women in this society… in school education if it is not possible to buy, he will learn the knowledge at home,” he said at the panel.
Due to increasing restrictions as well as severe economic crisis in the country, International Labor Organization of women’s employmentflour It said it was down 25% last year since mid-2021. She added that more women are turning to self-employment as tailors at home.
The United Nations Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) called on the Taliban on Wednesday to reverse restrictions on the rights of girls and women, calling them “torturous”.
The Taliban said they respect women’s rights in accordance with Islamic law and their interpretation of Afghan culture, and authorities have set up a committee to investigate perceived problems to work toward reopening girls’ schools.
Reporting by Kabul Newsroom Editing by Alexandra Hudson
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2023-03-08 22:26:43
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