The Afghan team have been absent from FIFA tournaments since the second Taliban takeover of the nation in 2021.
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UN official backs call for FIFA action on gender oppression in AfghanistanThe UN special rapporteur on Afghanistan urges ‘strong stand’ from FIFA for nation’s women to make international return.
The Sport and Rights Alliance (SRA) called on FIFA on Tuesday to take action to recognize the Afghan women’s football team in exile as the representative of Afghanistan to ensure their return to ...
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Despite FIFA contradicting its own human rights policies of gender-based discrimination by deferring to the Afghanistan Football Federation, which refuses to support a women's team, it states that ...
The SRA and others, such as Popal, Malala Yousafzai and Human Rights Watch, have consistently called for Fifa to recognise the exiled team. The senior side were evacuated to Australia in 2021, and ...
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Three years after fleeing Kabul, the Melbourne-based Afghanistan women's national team is still fighting for recognition by FIFAA single moment of sheer relief. That's what members of the Afghanistan women's football team recall when their plane fled Kabul for Melbourne, where their new life would begin. Following a ...
FIFA is facing fresh calls to officially recognise the Afghanistan women’s football team. Members of the national side, as quoted in a report published by the Sport & Rights Alliance (SRA ...
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