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Articles by Sima Samar
From Afghanistan’s first woman Vice President to exile
When I accepted the post of Minister for the newly created Ministry of Women’s Affairs in December 2001, Afghanistan was emerging from the ashes of the Taliban’s first rule. The country was broken, but the air was filled with hope. For the first time, women were again seen in public, and long persecuted groups like the Hazaras could breathe freely again.
The Taliban's Systematic Erasure of Women Is Crippling Afghan Society
Afghan girls attend school in Herat, Afghanistan (2019) | Solmaz Daryani / Shutterstock After the Taliban banned girls and women from studying beyond the sixth grade, in 2021, one avenue for education remained open: medical institutions, where they could train to become nurses, midwives, and pharmacists.
Dyan Mazurana and Sima Samar: Taliban’s ‘vice and virtue’ law erases women by justifying violence against them
Since returning to power three years ago, the Taliban have been enforcing oppressive laws that violate people’s freedoms and human rights, especially those of women and girls. But a newly passed “vice and virtue” law goes further. It is among the most repressive and discriminatory measures ever enacted by the Islamist fundamentalist group.
Taliban’s New ‘Vice And Virtue’ Law Erases Women
(ANALYSIS) Since returning to power three years ago, the Taliban have been enforcing oppressive laws that violate people’s freedoms and human rights, especially those of women and girls. But a newly passed “vice and virtue” law goes further. It is among the most repressive and discriminatory measures ever enacted by the Islamist fundamentalist group.
Como funciona a nova lei de “vício e virtude” usada pelo Talibã para oprimir mulheres
Desde que retornou ao poder há três anos, o Talibã vem aplicando leis opressivas que violam a liberdade das pessoas e os direitos humanos, especialmente os das mulheres e meninas. Mas uma lei “vício e virtude” recentemente aprovada vai além. Ela está entre as medidas mais repressivas e discriminatórias já promulgadas pelo grupo fundamentalista islâmico.
How the Taliban's new 'vice and virtue' law erases women by justifying violence against them
Since returning to power three years ago, the Taliban have been enforcing oppressive laws that violate people's freedoms and human rights, especially those of women and girls. But a newly passed "vice and virtue" law goes further. It is among the most repressive and discriminatory measures ever enacted by the Islamist fundamentalist group.
How the Taliban’s new ‘vice and virtue’ law erases women by justifying violence against them
How the Taliban’s new ‘vice and virtue’ law erases women by justifying violence against them
How the Taliban’s new ‘vice and virtue’ law erases women by justifying violence against them Original
Since returning to power three years ago, the Taliban have been enforcing oppressive laws that violate people’s freedoms and human rights, especially those of women and girls. But a newly passed “vice and virtue” law goes further. It is among the most repressive and discriminatory measures ever enacted by the Islamist fundamentalist group.
Enforcing the “Law of God”
January/February 2025 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... How Afghanistan became the world’s largest prison for women and girls. In the summer of 2021, U.S. and NATO troops scrambled to exit Afghanistan, leaving behind a fragile democratically elected government and a country in turmoil. Sima Samar, Afghanistan’s former minister of women’s affairs, along with women’s rights scholar Dyan Mazurana, describe what happened next.
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Taliban's Afghanistan: A Country of Only Men
The human rights abuses of the Taliban and re-establishment of gender apartheid in Afghanistan have largely been met with silence by the international community. A trend of normalization of the regime has begun to emerge in the media and in international assessments. Recently, The Washington Post ran an article titled “,” which described a Taliban enthralled with shopping, learning English and studying abroad.
How the US pull-out from Kabul hurt women most Original
Taliban members stop women in the street -- a sign of the reduced female empowerment following the departure of the US three years ago. AFP via Getty Images In 2002 I stood on a stage in the Zainab Cinema in Kabul to celebrate International Women’s Day as Afghanistan’s first minister of women’s affairs.
OUTSPOKEN | Kirkus Reviews
A blissfully vicarious, heartfelt glimpse into the life of a Manhattan burlesque dancer. A former New York City dancer reflects on her zesty heyday in the 1970s. Discovered on a Manhattan street in 2020 and introduced on Stanton’s Humans of New York Instagram page, Johnson, then 76, shares her dynamic history as a “fiercely independent” Black burlesque dancer who used the stage name Tanqueray and became a celebrated fixture in midtown adult theaters.
Woroni2024 Book Releases to Watch Out For - Woroni
The beginning of a new academic year calls for fresh distractions, and I come fully equipped to help you drain your wallets and your study time. Even better, you can tell yourself you’re wasting neither; reading is good for you, it makes you smart. You might as well be studying for your actual degree. Girl maths is calculating how many pretty hardcover novels you could buy with the money you saved by pirating your textbooks online (for legal purposes, this is a joke).
For Afghanistan’s Women, Taliban’s Gender Apartheid Is Reminiscent of the 1990s
One of the basic tenets of Islam is that all human beings are born with equal dignity. However, the Taliban do not respect this equal dignity and view themselves as superior to all. They closed the Election Commission, Election Complaint Commission, Constitution Oversight Commission and all other institutions necessary for democracy and good governance. Rule of Law The Afghan government had sought to create a legal framework in compliance with the country’s international legal obligations.
Africatown: America’s Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created
Nick Tabor. St. Martin’s, $29.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-76654-0 Journalist Tabor debuts with an eye-opening and often gripping history of more than 100 enslaved West Africans brought to America aboard the Clotilda in 1860 and the Alabama community they created.
Women and Jobs in Afghanistan
Sima Samar is a Chairperson of the Afghanistan Independent Human Right Commission. She was interviewed by the JKP on March 6, 2012. Women in Afghanistan continue to constitute a very small part of the official labor force. We asked Sima Samar, Chairperson of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, what could be done to give women greater economic opportunities.
Los derechos humanos no son un valor occidental
El 18 de septiembre del 2021, Afganistán dio al mundo otra noticia impactante: la abolición por parte de los talibanes de la Comisión Independiente de Derechos Humanos de Afganistán (AIHRC, según sus siglas inglesas) y las instituciones nacionales de derechos humanos creadas en el acuerdo de Bonn de diciembre del 2001.
"Women's Rights Are Not Just 'Western Values'": A Warning Not to Learn the Wrong Lessons From Afghanistan
The lesson that we need to take from what has happened in Afghanistan is that peace and security are not possible without respect for women’s rights and human rights. Sima Samar, head of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, on March 31, 2015, at her office in Kabul, Afghanistan.
¡Qué fuertes son las mujeres afganas!
Sima Samar 29/08/2021 07:32Actualizado a 29/08/2021 08:31 Siempre digo que las mujeres afganas son valientes. Han sido testigos del asesinato de maridos, hermanos e hijos. Han presenciado la destrucción de sus propiedades y se han visto obligadas a abandonar sus hogares. Se han convertido en desplazadas internas o refugiadas en países vecinos, donde la mayoría de las veces no han sido bien recibidas por las autoridades ni por la población local.
¿Quiénes son responsables?
22/08/2021 04:00Actualizado a 22/08/2021 07:32 Cuando Kabul cayó ante los talibanes el 15 de agosto, la gente se dirigió corriendo al aeropuerto sin saber qué hacer. La escena resultaba aterradora y muestra cuán expuestas están las personas a la violencia y el miedo. Contemplando las imágenes del aeropuerto, me costó creer lo que estaba viendo.
The U.S. Must Not Abandon Afghanistan
I call on the Biden administration to revisit the May 2021 withdrawal deadline for not only the safety of Afghans, but the entire world. “Afghans understand that our young democracy is worth fighting for and we need the support of our friends and allies to stand with us—not to abandon us in this critical time of our history.’ Pictured: Students at the Baktash Secondary School in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan.
Open letter to the UN's new health chief from “Alternative Nobel Prize” laureates
We congratulate Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on his election as Director-General of WHO—a job that literally makes the difference between life and death for millions of people around the world.As health professionals working in some of the most fragile countries and contexts—from Afghanistan to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and from the Occupied Palestinian Territories to Sudan—we would like to share our thoughts on what we believe is at stake and where WHO should put the greatest...
Child marriage is a human rights violation - sister-hood magazine. A Fuuse production by Deeyah Khan.
Child, early and forced marriages are global problems that cut across countries, religions, political regimes and ethnicities. According to the United Nation Children’s Fund report, 15 million girls each year are married before the age of 18. More than 700 million women and girls alive today were married before they reached their 18th birthday.
Corruption is a brutal enemy of Afghan women
In Afghanistan, there is an incorrect perception among many men that they can do as they please and buy enough influence to keep women in cages at home Diwa was asked to pay a bribe or marry the judge to get her case adjudicated. Shakila was killed and her case closed without charges being brought against the perpetrators because of corruption. Jamila has remained in a shelter for abused women for almost two years because of corruption in the justice system.
The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir
Cory Leadbeater. Ecco, $28 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-337157-6 Leadbeater debuts with a stirring account of his time working for Joan Didion (1934–2021) in the final years of her life. While growing up in New Jersey, Leadbeater endured horrific physical and psychological abuse from his father. To cope, he threw himself into reading and writing, and eventually gained admission to Columbia University’s English program in 2012.
The Time of My Life: Dirty Dancing
Andrea Warner. ECW, $15.95 trade paper (136p) ISBN 978-1-77041-741-0 Pop This! podcaster Warner (Rise Up and Sing!) presents an animated ode to the 1987 film Dirty Dancing.
Paper Soldiers: How the Weaponization of the Dollar Changed the World Order
Saleha Mohsin. Portfolio, $30 (304p) ISBN 978-0-593-53911-8 The U.S. dollar has become a tool for manipulating other countries, according to this incisive debut treatise.
Everything and Nothing at Once: A Black Man’s Reimagined Soundtrack for the Future
Joél Leon. Holt, $28.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-88710-8 “What does it mean to be a Black man, now?” asks Leon, creative director at the New York Times’s T Brand Studio, in his intimate debut essay collection.
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