[ad_1] Tears rolled down Maliheh’s face this week as she took down the sign of her beauty salon in Farah province in southwestern Afghanistan. The business she had owned and operated for the past 22 years can no longer operate because the Taliban have ordered all female beauty salons in the country to close down. “We have no hope in this country,” she said. “Women have no place here.” When the Taliban took over Afghanistan…
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[ad_1] Saara, who works for an international agency in Afghanistan, said that on the December day the Taliban banned women from working for nongovernmental organizations, she thought: Just “kill us at once.” This was the latest of the Taliban’s edicts to restrict the rights of women, like banning girls from attending secondary school in March, and then universities in December, and now taking away their jobs. They “have a knife,” she said of the Taliban.…
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[ad_1] Indiana on Friday became the first state in the U.S. to approve abortion restrictions since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, as the Republican governor quickly signed a near-total ban on the procedure shortly after lawmakers approved it. The bill, which takes effect Sept. 15, includes some exceptions. Abortions would be permitted in cases of rape and incest, before 10-weeks post-fertilization; to protect the life and physical health of the mother; and if a…
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