Taliban banning college books written by women

[MsAmerica]

Taliban ban books written by women from Afghan universities
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0kn7yyzrjgo
Taliban Bans Books by Women in Afghanistan’s Universities
https://afghanistanpeacecampaign.org/2025/09/22/taliban-bans-books-by-women-in-afghanistans-universities/
Afghanistan bans female authors from university curricula
At least 679 titles blacklisted, including texts on human rights, women’s rights and Western political thought.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/19/afghanistan-bans-female-authors-from-university-curricula

Government mismanagement and aid cuts

This recent articles list some of the many other issues. One of which is the forced return of Afghans from Pakistan because of tensions there.

But the article does highlight how this impacts on women and children.

https://www.humanrightsresearch.org/post/afghanistan-s-deepening-malnutrition-crisis-a-human-rights-emergency

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Another aspect which isn't talked about as much is that the harvesting and sale of poppies created a sizeable income for the country.

But the current regime has stopped the cultivation of poppies (which in terms of making opium less available is good) but has has a knock efffect.

Article from the time of the ban https://www.dw.com/en/taliban-poppy-ban-leaves-afghan-farmers-angry-jobless/a-70977767

I hadn't realised that was an old thread that had been revived (there have been quite a few started over the past couple of years)

Anyhow I saw this which is related, and maybe shows being part of th EU has some drawbacks.

European Women's Lobby outraged by European Commission’s invitation to meet the Taliban.
https://womenlobby.org/ewl-calls-for-immediate-withdrawal-of-taliban-invitation/

Someone else has noticed the BBC's framing of Afghan Dads selling their daughter's into sexual slavery trying to make the fathers out as the victims

https://youtube.com/shorts/48fjHotMLNw?si=DoxMiNypSXpD04FL

Crossing the main topics of this talkboard here. The poster seems to be Afghan.

https://www.reddit.com/r/GetNoted/comments/1uemrfr/its_a_femboy/

Though I'm not quite sure what the difference is between a femboy and a tw

(Using this thread as a place for news on Afghan women)

King meets women's cricket team that is not allowed to exist - BBC News

Yes there are quite a few Afghanistan focused threads and there's been a few more since my earlier Directory list.

I think MN for other topics are trialling a grouping together of threads under a topic say with tags

Horrific , I have no words !

Well, how about starting another thread instead?

There's several dozen already

Yeah, so? Why shouldn't there be an unlimited number? They're not all about the same thing.

Until there are better groupings for threads there will be multiple threads started, then dropping down the lists of most recent activities.

This way, by adding to an existing thread, it actually keeps your thread more in the headlines.

After all, iirc you posted this same story on the books topic area, so it's obvious you want to draw attention to what's going on

There is no advantage to keeping a thread boosted to the top if people will just be annoyed by finding the content doesn't match the headline!

And I cross-post when I think something is applicable to more than one forum, which is not the same thing at all.