Images of the struggle for human rights and freedoms around the world this week, from a women’s march for justice in Brazil to an attack on churches in Pakistan
Displaced villagers call for the withdrawal of security forces and access to their homes in Gwaltabi. Many of their homes were burned down during ethnic violence in Yaingangpokpi, in Manipur’s Imphal East district, on 16 August.Afghan women drawing in an art studio in Mazar-i-Sharif, northern Afghanistan. Figurines of Sufi dancers can be seen on the wall behind them. Women and girls have been banned from secondary schools and universities since the Taliban seized power two years ago.
Afghan women demand their right to education and work at a protest in Balkh, near Mazar-i-Sharif, Holding placards reading: ‘A Muslim can’t go against women’s education and work’, the protesters demanded that the Taliban government guarantee women’s rights in accordance with Islamic teachings.A kite is flown at Primrose Hill, London, during an event to mark the second anniversary of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.
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