Activists Urge Investment Boycott

The Boston-based Physicians for Human Rights is calling on firms to halt investment in Afghanistan to protest the “war on women” by the ruling Taliban army. The group’s report also urges the United Nations to consider removing its aid workers, even as the Taliban is claiming new victories that could soon put the entire country under its extreme interpretation of Islamic law. The Taliban has ruled most of Afghanistan since 1996. The report says that women are the target of extreme repression that forces them into virtual “house arrest.”