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2024
06.11.2024 / 28 minutes
Silenced and Made Invisible: The Tragic Daily Life of Afghan Women Under the Taliban
Since their return to power in August 2021, the Taliban have imposed increasingly radical laws in Afghanistan, particularly targeting Afghan women. The latest decree prohibits Afghan women from praying aloud so that others cannot hear their voices. This restriction is added to a series of prohibitions, including wearing perfume, applying makeup, moving without a male family member, traveling more than 70 kilometers from their home, and the requirement for women to wear face masks and fully cover their bodies when outside.
For Chékéba Hachemi, president of the association “Afghanistan Libre,” co-founder of Stand Speak Rise Up!, and former Afghan diplomat, this amounts to a deliberate strategy to “gradually erase women.”
04.10.2024 / Public Sénat
At eleven years old, she fled Afghanistan alone to escape the war. As a refugee in France, she has dedicated her life to the empowerment of Afghan women. The first Afghan diplomat, serving at the European Union from 2002 to 2005, she founded “Afghanistan Libre” and the NGO “Stand Speak Rise Up,” which supports survivors of sexual violence in conflict zones. As Afghan women’s freedoms have been shrinking since the Taliban’s return to power in 2021, how does she find the strength to keep fighting? Is the worsening situation for Afghan women inevitable? How can we break the silence and the West’s inaction in the face of this tragedy? This week, Rebecca Fitoussi welcomes Chékéba Hachemi on “Un monde, un regard,” an inspiring series of in-depth interviews in a world lacking direction and role models.
18.09.2024 / RTL Infos
Through the association Stand Speak Rise Up!, an advisor to the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg fights for the little freedom Afghan women still have.
Éric Cheysson, a surgeon and president of La Chaîne de l’Espoir, describes the situation as “social femicide.” Chékéba Hachemi, co-founder of the Luxembourg-based association Stand Speak Rise Up!, refers to it as “a form of genocide and a defiance of the West.”
The law enacted on August 22 by the Taliban government to “promote virtue and prevent vice” now governs many aspects of Afghan life under Islamic law, the Sharia. This 87-page, 35-article text is particularly oppressive for women, with its most absurd point being that they no longer have the right to raise their voices.
03.09.2024 / France 24
In Afghanistan, women are now prohibited from raising their voices in public. Three years after their return to power, the Taliban continue to gradually erase, “in the name of Islam,” half of their population, while the other half remains silent. How far will they go? What is life like today in Kabul and beyond? Is there a way out of this prison? We discuss these questions with Chékéba Hachemi and Eric Cheysson.
02.09.2024 / TF1
26.08.2024 / France 2
With a new law, the Taliban are further stifling the rights of Afghan women. Chekeba Hachemi, co-founder of Stand Speak Rise Up!, denounced this new Taliban law on France 2, which represents a new setback for the rights of Afghan women. The situation in Afghanistan is dire
2023
24.11.2023 / Public Sénat
On August 15, 2021, the Taliban retook Kabul and seized power in Afghanistan, ending 20 years of American presence. On that day, a chapter closed for the women of the country. With the Taliban’s return to power, they are no longer allowed to work, go to school, or show their faces in public. How did Afghanistan reach this point? How, after 20 years of international intervention, did the country fall back into the hands of the Taliban? Why did this American venture turn into a fiasco? Have we abandoned Afghan women, and how can we help them now? These are some of the questions that Rebecca Fitoussi will pose to her guests on the show “Un monde en docs.”
11.2023 / C dans l’air
4.01.2023 / France Info
Chékéba Hachemi, co-founder of Stand Speak Rise Up!, and her daughter, Mariame Haami, were guests on Patricia Loison’s show on Wednesday, January 4, on Franceinfo. On the occasion of the release of the audiobook “L’insolente de Kaboul” by Chékéba Hachemi, they discussed the relentless struggle of Afghan women, who are today deprived of freedom and “walled in alive” by the Taliban.
2022
08.12.2022 / TV5 Monde
For years, Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, has been fighting with her association to help women who are victims of rape and sexual violence in armed conflicts.
15.03.2022 / LN24
H.R.H. Grand Duchess Maria Teresa was a guest of Brigitte Weberman on the show #CauseToujours on LN24.
2021
28.04.2021/ abc NEWS
The equivalent of the country’s queen, Maria Teresa of Luxembourg, was born in Cuba before moving to New York during the Cuban revolution, and then to Geneva, where she met Henri, the current Grand Duke.
9.11.2021 / C à vous