Last statements of the International Committee
Statement #3 – January 26, 2023
Don’t let more protesting women be killed and imprisoned
Mursal Nabizada, a women’s rights activist and former member of the Afghan Parliament, was killed and her 17-year-old brother was wounded by “unknown” gunmen at her home in Kabul on January 15, 2023. After the Taliban returned to power in August 2021 and the Afghan parliament was dissolved, she quit and lived in Kabul. She criticized the misogynist, anti-science, anti-civil liberties policies of the religious Taliban regime. She supported the spontaneous movement of Afghan women who fight for education, work, freedom and women’s rights. Before her death, Ms. Nabizada had raised her concerns several times with her friends and some…
Keep readingThe appearance of women in the city without a Mahram (1) is forbidden
The Taliban are making the space for women in Afghanistan more and more limited with each passing day. Ahmad Shah Dinparast, the Taliban governor in Ghor province, has ordered the police not to let women roam around the city without a Mahram. After the Taliban prevented girls from going to school and university, from parks and public baths, and from working in government institutions and non-govermental organizations, now they tend to prevent even women from going to the doctor and receiving treatment, buying their daily necessities in the local market. The governor of the Taliban emphasizes that to leave the…
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Campaign: from house to street to overthrow the Taliban
These days, protesting women in some provinces of Afghanistan have launched a protest campaign called “from house to street to overthrow the Taliban” against the despotic and misogynist regime of the Taliban. Due to the brutal repression of the Taliban, they are forced to share their voices with mass media and people in different ways. They make short video clips with their faces covered, writing some of their slogans and demands on flipcharts and reading: One of the protesting women says that she not only as a woman but also as an Afghan citizen wants the Taliban regime to be…
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Women write, Taliban erase
Every night in Kabul and Herat, protesting women of “Spontaneous Movement of Afghan Women” write anti-Taliban slogans and their demands on city walls and streets, but the Taliban government erases them. The anti-feminist government of the Taliban is afraid of women’s demonstrations and the voice of women’s awakening and protest, and they always try to suppress it. Taliban intelligence is trying to identify, arrest, torture and even kill protesting women.
Keep readingWomen’s protests getting the sympathy of families and men
After the Taliban brutally suppressed women’s protests in the streets and imprisoned the protesters, the women never retreated and their struggle continues. This struggle has not only been reduced in the form of mass presence in the street, but has spread within each family and has also gained the support of the men of the families. Sayed Akram, a resident of Kabul, who has three young daughters, is worried about his daughters’ education and future. He supports the struggle of his three daughters for the reopening of girls’ schools and universities. Ruhollah from Nangarhar Province, who lost both his eyesight…
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The demands of Afghan women are becoming more radical
Afghan women’s protests began in Kabul and other Afghan cities at the same time as the Taliban came to power in August 2021. From the beginning, these protests were accompanied by the slogan “bread, work, freedom”. The spontaneous movement of Afghan women never left the battlefield due to the fear of being beaten, arrested, tortured and imprisoned by the Taliban and they continue to fight for their denied rights. Although some women affiliated with the “National Resistance Front” under the leadership of former warlords and human rights violators, as well as some famous women who held high positions in Ashraf…
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The International Committee to Defend Afghan Women is formed
We, the delegates to the International Working Women’s Conference, held on 29 October 2022…
We, the delegates to the International Working Women’s Conference, held on 29 October 2022, having received the message of the Spontaneous Afghan Women’s Movement addressed to our conference, decide to form an International Committee for the Defence of Afghan Women who are demonstrating against the regime. The message describes the persecution of Afghan women by the Taliban regime as well as the protests against the regime by women targeted by these attacks. We hereby decide to make the message of our Afghan sisters widely known in our respective countries,in particular, the six demands that appear in the conclusion of this…
Message of the “Spontaneous Movement of Afghan Women”to the International Conference of Working Women (October 28, 2022, Kabul)
Today, Afghan women live under the most misogynistic regime, where they are deprived of all their human and civil rights. For this reason, Afghan women activists formed their own protest movement after the Taliban rule in August 2021, which has been organizing women’s protests in the cities of Kabul, Jalalabad, Herat, Mazar-e-Sharif and Bamiyan with the slogans (bread, work, freedom). When women protest and demonstrate against the violation of their rights, the Taliban police brutally suppress them, beat them and threaten them with prison and death. […] Taliban intelligence identifies women activists and participants in demonstrations, arrests them during demonstrations,…
The International Committee to Defend Afghan Women was formed by…
ALGERIA: HAFSI Nadia. BELGIUM; AIME Emilie,teacher; DARMONT Eléonore, student; K. Olga, social worker. BENIN: GNONLONFOUN Liliane, trade unionist. CHILE: LAPERTE Marcela, Independent Movement for the Rights of the People (MIDP) ; FRANCE: KEISER Christel, POID national secretary; BAHLOUL Maïa, student, FJR (Federation of Young Revolutionaries); TIZZI Djemilla, trade unionist and POID member; MAS Nicole, member of the POID national bureau; ADOUE Camille, student, FJR member; LISCOËT Catherine, retired, member of the POID national bureau; DUPUY Martine, national secretary of the POID; MICHAUD Isabelle, CGT trade unionist; TEMPEREAU Lucile, young worker and POID member; SAUVAGE Jeanne, professor and researcher; FAURY Stéphanie,…