Afghan broadcaster airs rare all-female panel to discuss rights on Women's Day

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KABUL: Afghan broadcaster Tolo News on Wednesday (Mar 8) aired an all-female panel in its studio with an audience of women to mark International Women's Day, a rare broadcast since the Taliban took over and many female journalists left the profession or started working off-air. A survey by Reporters Withou

KABUL: Afghan broadcaster Tolo News on Wednesday aired an all-female panel in its studio with an audience of women to mark International Women's Day, a rare broadcast since the Taliban took over and many female journalists left the profession or started working off-air.

With surgical masks covering their faces, the panel of three women and one female moderator on Wednesday evening discussed the topic of the position of women in Islam. The Taliban last year restricted most girls from high school, women from university and stopped most Afghan female NGO workers. "Whether you want it or not, women exist in this society ... if it's not possible to get an education at school, she will learn knowledge at home," she told the panel.

 

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