Afghanistan: Taliban Prevents Women’s March
Event- Country
- Afghanistan
- Initial Date
- Oct 31, 2022
- Event Description
A number of women wanted to display their educational documents in Kabul in protest against the ban on women’s right to work.
The program was launched on Monday morning (October 31st) in Shahr-e Naw Park in Kabul.
Videotapes released by a female protester show that Taliban fighters are present in Shahr-e Naw Park, and one of them tears placards with slogans and educational documents of protesting girls and tells the protestors to leave the area.
These girls had gathered in protest against the violation of women’s right to work in Afghanistan by the Taliban.
Previously, women’s protests in different provinces have been suppressed by the Taliban.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Woman
- Violation
- Intimidation and Threats
- Rights Concerned
- Freedom of assembly
- Freedom of expression
- Offline
- Right to healthy and safe environment
- Right to Protest
- HRD
- Community-based HRD
- WHRD
- Perpetrator-Non-State
- Non-state
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 34.527570186953945
Longitude: 69.17795659879614
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 31 October 2022, a group of community-based WHRDs were prevented by the Taliban from staging a protest to demand women's access to education in Kabul, Afghanistan.