Figures just ‘the tip of the iceberg’, new data suggests
Afghan Burqa-clad women walk along a road during the celebration of third anniversary of Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in Kabul this month. Photograph: Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty ImagesOpen-source investigators at the Centre of Information Resilience’s Afghan Witness project combed through social media and news sites to record 332 reported cases of femicide since the Taliban took Kabul on August 15th, 2021.
‘Eight times we have changed the place and times of the school’: Afghan women defying the Taliban education ban‘We need the Irish because God gave us the gift of the gab’: Irish-Americans rally behind Kamala Harris “What we have collected is only the tip of the iceberg,” he says. “ more and more difficult for Afghan women to speak out and for us to document gender-based violence and the impact of Taliban rule on women and girls.”
The Taliban have also announced the reintroduction of the public flogging and stoning of women for adultery. Afghan Witness’s open-source data analysis also chronicles how public protests against the Taliban regime have declined significantly over the past three years.
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