Chickenpox infections spread in Bamyan on back of limited healthcare and no access to vaccine
“When the red spots appeared on my child's skin, I thought it was a simple and passing sensitivity, and that...
Hope for girls education ends as Taliban force education centers to sign commitments against teaching high school girls
The Taliban-run Ministry of Education has forced education officials to sign commitments that they will not teach girls above grade...
Famous for her poetry and skateboarding videos, Afghanistan’s eight-year-old ‘Spring Girl’ mulls what her future holds under Taliban rule
The eight-year-old’s fame has grown from videos on social media of her odd pairing of talents - poetry and skateboarding,...
Taliban shuts down two TV stations over alleged violations of Islamic values
The shutdown by the department’s Media Violation Commission is only temporary, Bakhtar reported. Ostensibly until the problems are corrected.
Two Afghan women’s rights activists receive Kosovo’s Presidential Medal of Merit
Two Afghan women have been awarded Kosovo’s Presidential Medal of Merit for their fight for human rights at an international...
Is it engagement or is it enabling? A new study explores how Taliban cruelty towards women is perpetuated through foreign finances and indifference
A study on the Taliban’s rule of Afghanistan and how foreign entities are involved has been released by a Texas-based...
Afghan women capitalize on enforced confinement and online study to forge opportunities for international education
Zahra* is the kind of woman the Taliban had hoped to eradicate. Despite Taliban decrees cutting her off from any...
Women’s rights activist Manizha Sediqi released after seven months of Taliban detention
Afghan women’s rights activist Manizha Sediqi has been released from prison under an Eid al-Fitr amnesty decree from the Taliban...
The empty table of Iftar: A family barely surviving on bread and tea
“The children have grown. They understand everything. I spend the whole day thinking about what to serve them for Iftar,”...
Rukhshana Media reporter among joint winners of Afghanistan Journalist of the Year 2024
The Afghanistan Journalists Centre (AfJC) has jointly awarded five journalists its highest honor of Journalist of the Year for 2024,...
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