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A woman wearing a burqa walks along a road at the Khwaja Koza Gar area in Herat on February 4, 2022. (Wakil Kohsar / AFP via Getty Images)

BY MAKHFI AZIZI | With the Taliban’s latest decree issued Saturday, women are now required to cover themselves from head to toe—preferably using a burka. 
 
In the eight months since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, the group has reinstated its repressive rules in full force, specifically targeting women and girls. Among many restrictions introduced, secondary school-age girls have been restricted from schools; women public servants have been removed from their jobs; women can no longer travel alone; and public and academic spaces have become limited and segregated. 

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BY AILEEN FULLCHANGE | Asian American Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) are consistently underrepresented in leadership positions and underpaid even with higher qualifications—a phenomenon known as the bamboo ceiling. In the meantime, Anti-AAPI hate, correlated with racialized rhetoric about the coronavirus, rose by 339 percent in 2021—over two times the rise in 2020 of 124 percent.

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BY MAYA MANIAN | Laws requiring parental consent for minors requiring abortion care do not help teenagers—they only delay much needed healthcare for vulnerable youth.

States overwhelmingly allow a teenager to independently consent to pregnancy care and medical treatment for her child, and even to give up her child for adoption, without notice to her parents, yet require parental notice or consent for abortion.

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