Taliban abuses risk being normalised in Afghanistan, campaigners warn
When the Taliban were toppled from power in 2001, many women in Afghanistan kept wearing the burqa, even though they...
“We have nowhere to go” – Afghan families forced out of Iran face poverty and destitution
In a corner of a large park in the ancient Afghan city of Herat, a young woman sits and rocks...
Two more arrested in Afghan media crackdown
The Taliban say they have arrested two people in Afghanistan for dubbing foreign television series for payment in violation of...
Taliban forces using electric shocks on Afghan women over dress
Taliban forces are administering electric shocks to women over breaches of a hijab mandate so strict it even requires them...
ICC issues warrant for Taliban’s supreme leader for persecution of women
The international criminal court has issued arrest warrants for two senior Taliban leaders, accusing them of crimes against humanity for the persecution...
Taliban arrest Afghan media workers over promotion of feminism
The Taliban say they have arrested two employees of an Afghan cultural organisation that makes short films about life in...
How Afghanistan’s education ban has shattered the lives of rural women
When Lina* became one of the few girls from her district in rural Afghanistan to win a place at university,...
‘No one will take the side of a woman alone’ – one Afghan widow’s desperate fight for her children
But if life was hard before 2021, that was nothing compared to what Hadia faces now. As well as being...
‘It’s worth a piece of bread’ – how a ban on selling hair robbed Afghan women of one of their last ways to earn
In a quiet alley in western Afghanistan, a middle-aged woman swathed in a hijab is pleading with a dealer to...
Meet the Afghan woman braving all to protect children from polio
Every year for the past decade, Zohra* has spent weeks criss-crossing the mountains of central Afghanistan on foot, braving both...
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