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For Afghan Women, Singing is Resistance

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/08/28/afghan-women-singing-resistance

Here we are, the women, the world,
Singing freedom like a bird
Rise up, my people,
Rise up, my friend.
Their boots might be on my neck.
Or their fists to my face.
But with our deep light inside
I will fight through this night.\
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This is what I woke up to this morning. It has remained in my mind, repeating all day. The Taliban have recently issued a new law banning women from singing in public or letting their voices be heard outside the house. In response, Afghan women have been singing this song and other songs and posting videos of it on social media.

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UN Expert Slams Taliban Crimes Against Afghan Women, Girls

Report Calls for Accountability, End to Serious Abuses

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/06/11/un-expert-slams-taliban-crimes-against-afghan-women-girls

The situation in Afghanistan is the most serious women’s rights crisis in world, and it is steadily worsening. The Taliban continue to issue abusive orders and have intensified enforcement of existing ones. In March, the Taliban issued an order that women be stoned to death for so-called “moral crimes,” such as sex outside of marriage and “running away” from their homes, often to escape domestic violence.

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Posts Distort Missouri Divorce Law Regarding Pregnancy

https://www.factcheck.org/2024/03/posts-distort-missouri-divorce-law-regarding-pregnancy/

There’s no law in Missouri that prevents pregnant women from getting divorced. But social media posts claim Missouri women “cannot divorce their spouse if they are pregnant.” Legal experts told us a judge may wait to finalize a divorce until after a baby is born to determine custody and other arrangements.

Nowhere in Missouri law does it say pregnant women are barred from getting divorced.\
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But a judge handling a case where one party is pregnant may wait to finalize that divorce until the baby is born, which, experts told us, is done in order to consolidate custody and child-support agreements with other end-of-marriage arrangements.\
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This can happen in other states, too.

The claim first circulated online in 2022, when news outlets published stories about women in Missouri who had experienced delays in their divorce proceedings due to pregnancy. The articles included comments from some lawyers who attested to the custom of Missouri judges to wait until birth to finalize a divorce, although none of them pointed to a statute or court rule that mandated judges to do so.

Women are not required to stay with their spouses after they have filed for divorce.

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