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Rights groups slam severe Taliban restrictions on Afghan women as ‘crime against humanity’
FILE - Afghan women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, May 23, 2023. Two top international rights groups on Friday, May 26, slammed the severe restrictions imposed on women and girls by the Taliban in Afghanistan, saying they amount to the “crime against humanity of gender persecution.” (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)
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U.S. State Department to allow House members to view classified Afghanistan document
FILE PHOTO: Taliban soldiers stand in front of a sign at the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, September 9, 2021. WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY./File Photo
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Terrified of the Taliban, families of Canada’s Afghan advisers plead for help
Canadian soldiers stand beside a canal near the village of Charbagh on the outskirts of Kandahar in this Oct. 3, 2009 photo. Canadians who served in Afghanistan say many of their Afghan family members don't qualify to come to Canada, even though their lives are at risk. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Bill Graveland
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UN urges Afghanistan’s Taliban to reverse bans on women
A Taliban fighter stands guard as Afghan people attend Eid al-Fitr prayers, marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, April 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
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Mendicino rejects calls for blanket exemption to terror law for Afghanistan aid
Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino waits to appear at the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights, Monday, April 17, 2023 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Ottawa hits 30,000 Afghan-refugee milestone, but many still left in limbo
Federal Immigration Minister Sean Fraser speaks at a news conference highlighting the government's inflation relief efforts for those hardest hit by rising food prices, in Calgary, Monday, April 3, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Biden’s Afghanistan report mostly blames Trump for chaotic U.S. withdrawal
Families begin to board a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III transport plane during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Afghanistan, August 23, 2021. U.S. Marine Corps/Sgt. Samuel Ruiz/Handout via REUTERS.
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Gunmen kill two police in northwest Pakistan
This is a locator map for Pakistan with its capital, Islamabad, and the Kashmir region. (AP Photo)
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Three British men being held in Taliban custody in Afghanistan
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UN says Afghan girls’ education activist arrested in Kabul
In this photograph taken on May 17, 2022, Matiullah Wesa, head of PenPath and advocate for girls' education in Afghanistan, speaks to children during a class next to his mobile library in Spin Boldak district of Kandahar Province. - The founder of a project that campaigned for girls' education in Afghanistan has been detained by Taliban authorities in Kabul, his brother and the United Nations said on March 28, 2023. (Photo by Sanaullah SEIAM / AFP) (Photo by SANAULLAH SEIAM/AFP via Getty Images)
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Morning Update: Federal budget will prioritize clean electricity in face of U.S. competition
Manitoba Hydro power lines just outside Winnipeg, Monday, May 1, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods
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The Taliban, Afghanistan’s governing terrorists, face a terror problem of their own
Ruchi Kumar
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Earthquake in Afghanistan kills at least 11, nine of them in Pakistan
The Chiatibo glacier in the Hindu Kush mountain range is seen in Pakistan, October 16, 2019. Neil Hall/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
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UBC program opens the door for former Afghan judges to study law
Judge Bibi Wahida Rahimi, pictured here, has accepted a two-year position as a research associate through the new Afghan Women Judges Program at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, B.C. March 10, 2023.
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Ottawa is set to finally allow Canadian aid to reach Afghanistan. What took so long?
Allan Rock and Warda Shazadi Meighen
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Ottawa introduces legislation to make it easier for aid groups to work in Afghanistan
Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino speaks during a press conference following a media technical briefing on the tabling of legislation to alter terrorism provisions of the Criminal Code that have blocked Canadian humanitarian aid from reaching Afghanistan, at the Canadian Red Cross in Ottawa, on Thursday, March 9, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
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Liberals to amend terrorism provisions of Criminal Code that block aid to Afghanistan
Minister of Public Safety Marco Mendicino rises during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, March 7, 2023. The Trudeau government will table legislation this morning to alter the terrorism provisions of the Criminal Code, which have blocked Canadian humanitarians from working in Afghanistan. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
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Under the Taliban, Afghanistan’s women health care workers may work but under supervision
Afghan people stand with food aid being distributed by a non-governmental organisation (NGO) at a gymnasium in Kabul on January 17, 2023. - At least three leading international aid agencies have partially resumed life-saving work in Afghanistan, after assurances from the Taliban authorities that Afghan women can continue to work in the health sector. (Photo by Wakil KOHSAR / AFP) (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)
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Canadian NGO bridges education gap for Afghan girls affected by Taliban ban
An Afghan girl reads the Koran in a madrasa or religious school in Kabul, Afghanistan, October 8, 2022. REUTERS/Ali Khara
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