Afghan journalists appeal to UN for free speech support in open letter signed by 600
The Afghanistan Journalists Support Organization (AJSO) has addressed the United Nations (UN) Secretary General in an open letter, outlining the...
Women’s rights groups call for humanitarian organisations to cease operations in Afghanistan to pressure the Taliban to reinstate women’s right to work
Afghan women's rights activists and protestors, calling themselves Coalition of Women’s Protest Movement, held a press conference Monday to condemn...
Journalists banned from interviewing women in Helmand, two weeks after photo and video reports were banned in the province
Helmand province's Department of Information and Culture has told a journalist he can no longer interview women.
The girls and women being married off to avoid forced marriage with a Talib
The text message read “I like you and I want to marry you.” Yasra* received it one night from one...
Sar-e Pol teenager commits suicide over forced marriage
A 15-year-old girl has committed suicide because she was allegedly forced to get engaged against her will, local sources in...
I put my children up for auction just as my father sold me when I was 10: The cycles of lack and abuse keeping families in poverty
In the early hours of the morning in southern Ghazni city, many women who live in poverty leave their homes...
Taliban plan central database to register all journalists but critics say it might curtail media freedoms even more
All journalists and media workers operating in Afghanistan will be registered in a central database with the Taliban’s Ministry of...
AIHRC: Taliban holds multiple human rights defenders without charge
Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission said in a statement released April 1 that the fate is still unknown of civil...
A girl’s school in Faryab province destroyed in suspicious fire
A girls' school in Faryab province's Andkhoy district has caught fire and at least eight classrooms were completely destroyed in...
Badakhshan’s only female-led radio station forced to stop broadcasting
The Taliban's department of information and culture in Badakhshan province has forced a radio station to cease broadcasts allegedly for...
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