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The traditional clothing of Hazara women includes a pleated skirt with a tunban or undergarment. The lower tunbans are made of fabrics such as flowered chits and the upper skirts are made of better fabrics such as velvet or zari and net and have a border or decoration at the bottom.
Dozens of women from the Hazara community of Afghanistan protested after a suicide bombing in September 2022, occurred in an educational center that killed more than 52 young women. The Hazaras have long been the subjects of persecution in Afghanistan.
Sima Samar (Persian: سیما سمر; born 3 February 1957) is a Hazara woman and human rights advocate, activist and medical doctor within national and international forums, who served as Minister of Women's Affairs of Afghanistan from December 2001 to 2003.
Taliban arrest women and girls in Kabul for violating dress code. In January 2024, the Taliban regime in Afghanistan arrested dozens of women and girls in western Kabul, a predominantly Hazara neighborhood, for wearing "bad hijab," which means not covering their faces or wearing tight clothes.
She is known to be the first woman lawyer from Quetta's Hazara minority, and an advocate for the rights of her persecuted community. She is a member of the Awami Workers Party (AWP), leader of the Balochistan chapter of Women Democratic Front (WDF), and also an activist in the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM).
In Afghanistan, one of the atrocities committed by the Taliban was the enslavement of the Afghan women for use as concubines. In 1998, eyewitnesses in Mazar e Sharif reported the hundreds of Shia girls had been abducted by Taliban fighters. One source suggests that up to 400 Afghan women were involved. See also. Bukhara slave trade
