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The U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) held a special session on Afghanistan on Tuesday and remarkably failed to condemn the Taliban, document its abuses, or create a commission for further inquiry.

A female Afghan refugee using the name “Muskan” told India’s News18 on Saturday that Taliban fighters are raping both live women and the dead bodies of their victims.

A female Afghan journalist denounced Thursday that, despite assurances to the international community that they would allow women to work, Taliban jihadists are banning women from leaving their homes in Kabul and personally banned her from doing her job.

Model Lily Cole has deleted and apologized for what she called her “incredibly ill timed” burqa selfies that she posted during the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. In the caption of her post, Cole included a call to “embrace diversity,” and promoted her new book about climate change.

Mustapha Ben Messaoud, chief of Afghanistan field operations for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), said on Tuesday he was “quite optimistic” about working with the Taliban after the Islamist conquerors allegedly “expressed support” for allowing girls to continue attending school.

The Taliban, a jihadist terrorist organization, vowed during a press conference Tuesday to prevent “discrimination against women” now that it had taken over Afghanistan.

A group of women in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, organized a protest on Tuesday demanding the radical Islamist Taliban respect their rights.

Scotland’s left-separatist Scottish National Party (SNP) government has issued official guidance to schools saying they can assist supposedly transgender pupils to change their gender identity from the age of four, without telling their parents.

President Biden is considering granting 2,000 additional visas to vulnerable Afghan women who may be evacuated to wait out the process.

The European Parliament will vote on a resolution declaring abortion access a human right and which demands an end to barriers to abortion, including conscientious objections.

PARIS (AP) – The French rugby federation is allowing transgender people to take part in all France’s domestic competitions from next season in a move going against recommendations from World Rugby.

The United Nations bizarrely elected Iran, one of the most violently misogynistic governments in the world, to a four-year term on its Commission on the Status of Women on Monday. The vote elicited swift condemnation from human rights activists.

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressed his displeasure Tuesday with “letting biological men compete in women’s sports.”

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday celebrated “Islam’s view” of women and praised Iranian women “martyred, handicapped, or imprisoned” while fighting his regime’s wars as the “summit of glory.”

President Joe Biden will sign two more executive orders on Monday to mark International Women’s Day with a focus on “gender equality.”

Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves will sign a bill into law protecting female athletes in high schools and colleges from competing against men.

A new law proposed by the far-left party in Spain’s coalition government will make it easier for residents to change genders for official purposes. A bill sponsored by Equality Minister Irene Montero aims to make gender self-determination — no diagnosis, medical treatment or judge required — the norm, with eligibility starting at age 16. Nearly 20 countries, eight of them in the European Union, already have similar laws.

Feminists are facing that Planned Parenthood, once a “women’s rights” champion, is now a major player in the transgender medical industry.

Rep. Mo Brooks opposes President Biden’s executive order that allows biological men who live as women to compete in women’s sports.

Female athletes and women’s sports advocates want to advance federal legislation to protect women’s rights and transgender participation.

Texas lawmakers have introduced legislation to protect girls and women who participate in sports from transgender competition.

An angry firestorm from both leftwing feminists and conservative constitutionalists is besieging President Joe Biden who, on Day One of his presidency, issued an executive order that removes any legal recognition of the two sexes and eradicates protections women have enjoyed in the federal government and other arenas such as bathroom privacy and sports.

The Montana House Judiciary passed the Save Women’s Sports Act, legislation that would prevent transgender men from competing against women.

Biden is expected to embrace transgender ideology, including supporting biological men competing in sports against biological women.

Lawmakers in North Dakota are taking up a bill to allow competing in sports in high school and college based on one’s biological sex.

A Riyadh court on Monday sentenced Loujain Alhathloul, a Saudi women’s rights activist, to nearly six years in prison under a terrorism law, state-linked Saudi media reported.

A study published Thursday unveiled extreme abuses against local women in mining communities in Zimbabwe, particularly by security forces and police tied to the ruling socialist Zanu-PF party.

Another form of abuse imported from the third world and forced on ethnic minority women has been exposed, after an investigation revealed British medical clinics are conducting “virginity tests” and “virginity repairs”.

The Women’s Liberation Front is opposed to the Equality Act, embraced by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, because it would harm women’s rights.

J.K. Rowling is being criticized again for expressing the idea that the “transgender” radical ideology harms girls and women.

The Women’s March enjoys nonprofit status with the IRS as a 501(c)(4) “social welfare organization” while it campaigns against Donald Trump.

Actress and left-wing activist Ashley Judd wrote at CNN that Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation to the Supreme Court would cause women’s equality to suffer and “haul us back in time.”

Xi Jinping on Thursday delivered a speech advocating for women’s rights at the U.N.’s World Conference on Women in Beijing.

Sen. Chuck Schumer warned that a “far-right majority” on the court could “turn back the clock on women’s rights and a woman’s right to choose, workers’ rights, voting rights, civil rights, LGBTQ rights, environmental protections and more.”

A senior Bolivian official on Monday confirmed the existence of an investigation into a birth certificate that lists former socialist leader Evo Morales as the father of a child born to a 16-year-old girl in 2016.

The Democratic National Committee is getting backlash from its far-left base, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who got a 60-second speaking slot at the ongoing 2020 Democrat convention while former Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) spoke much longer.