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Last statements of the International Committee
The new academic year began without the presence of girls
The Taliban officially announced the new academic year on the first day of the year 1403 corresponding to March 20, 2024. This year, like the last two years, the bell for the start of the new school year in Afghanistan was rung without the presence of girls. With the opening of schools and universities, girls were not allowed to enter schools and universities. They stood despondently behind the school gates and shed tears. When 15-year-old Ahrar, older brother of Mahla happily went to his school in Kabul in the morning to start the first day of his eighth grade, 13-year-old…
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A release of the Spontaneous Movement of Afghan Women (SMAW), 8 March 2024
Afghan women need your support ! While the women of Afghanistan are burning in the hell of Taliban rule from August 2021 onwards, the great powers and the international community are engaged in concessions and open and secret deals with the Taliban. While more than 50 anti-women decrees have been issued and implemented by the Taliban in order to systematically deprive women of all their human and civil rights, the international community is still silent. While women’s civil protests for “bread, work, freedom” are brutally suppressed in Kabul and other provinces and protesting women are arrested, tortured and killed, the…
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A release of the Spontaneous Movement of Afghan Women (SMAW), October 25
Arrests and torture of women by the Taliban continue There is still no news about the fate of Ms. Julia Parsi and Ms. Neda Parwani during the past month, when the news of the arrest of Ms. Manizha Sediqi was confirmed. Ms.Manizha Sediqi disappeared from the Karte Naw district of Kabul on October 9, 2023. Due to security threats in the past fifteen days, his family did not want to make the issue of Manizha’s disappearance public. They searched everywhere for her, but did not get any information about her. Finally, on October 24, her family found out that she…
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Thank-you letter
This year, the condemnation of October 7th, the day of the US and its allies’ military attack on Afghanistan, was accompanied by the demand for freedom and asylum for Afghan women. The “International Committee for the Defense of Afghan Women” following the proposal of the “Spontaneous Movement of Afghan Women” launched a global campaign to appeal for asylum for protesting women wanted by the Taliban. The United States and its allies, who agreed in the February 2020 Doha agreement to return power to the Taliban, are responsible for the current hellish situation of women under the Taliban’s misogynistic regime. Granting…
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October 7 : the call of the Spontaneous Movement of Afghan Women has been widely echoed !
[Press release – October 13, 2023] On October 7, 2023 (the sombre anniversary of NATO’s invasion of Afghanistan in 2001), in response to a proposal by the Spontaneous Movement of Afghan Women, the International Committee for the Defense of Afghan Women called for rallies, pickets and initiatives around the world to demand: That the governments of the major powers grant immediate welcome and asylum to persecuted Afghan women! That Neda Parwani, Julia Parsi and all arrested activists be released! This call has been widely echoed: in Afghanistan, in eight provinces, and all over the world. Women and men, workers, students,…
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On October 7, all over the world, please organize pickets and rallies to demand that European governments grant asylum to women activists persecuted in Afghanistan!
Press release no. 10 – 27 September 2023 First dates that have been announced: San Francisco (USA): October 6 at the Federal Building (Mission and 7th Street) at 12 noon Berlin (Germany): October 7, rally outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Paris (France): October 7, rally at 2.30pm, Place de la République Bilbao (Spain): October 7, 11:30 am, Gobierno civil/Gobernu zibilean, Plaza Eliptika (please let the International Committee know your meeting place and time: afghanistanwomen2022@gmail.com) *** Free Neda Parwani! Neda Parwani, one of the women fighters of the Afghan women’s protest movement, was arrested on Tuesday, September 19, 2023 in…
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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,…