43 minutes agoAfghanistan: More than 600 journalists are out of work
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)Women's newspapers in Afghanistan are being forced to leave their jobs and are being asked to stay home despite Taliban promises to allow them to work and respect media freedom. Reporter Sans Friends [ RSF says it believes less than 100 out of 700 women journalists in Kanbul are still in [...]
Reporter Sans Friends [ RSF says it believes less than 100 out of 700 women's journalists in Kanbul are still working, and only a small part are working from house to two other Afghan provinces.
Others have been attacked and harassed, reports Guardian, translates Periscopi.
By halting women's voices in the media, Taliban are in the process of silenceing the country's women, the report said.
Since the Taliban took control of the country on 15 August, a research by RSF found that most women in media organisations had told women journalists to stop working.
The Kanbul media organizations had owned 700 journalists in 2020. /Periscope
