Taliban prohibits press conferences without their permission
By Zahra Nader The Afghanistan Federation of Journalists and Media said the Taliban cancelled their press conference on Wednesday and...
Taliban rule poses a severe threat to the LGBT Afghans, a new report warns
By Rukhshana Media In a new report released today, Human Rights Watch and OutRight Action International said the lives and...
“We will not give up,” women’s rights protesters vow in Kabul
By Rukhshana Media In an indoor protest on Tuesday in the Afghan capital, Kabul, a group of women called on...
“It is difficult to work as a journalist under a burqa in a gender-segregated environment,” say women journalists under Taliban
By Laila Yousufy Two weeks after the Taliban takeover, when more than 600 women journalists out of a total of...
Human Rights Watch: Taliban want to “eradicate critical women’s voices”
By Rukhshana Media Days after the Taliban arrested women activists in the Afghan capital, Human Rights Watch said on Monday,...
UN called on the Taliban to ensure the release of women activists “abducted
By Rukhshana Media The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) called on the Taliban to ensure the release of...
‘I’ve already sold my daughters; now, my kidney’: winter in Afghanistan’s slums
Since leaving the family home in the country’s Badghis province four years ago, the Rahmatis have been living in a...
“Every step taken toward the Taliban is a step taken against the people of Afghanistan,” women say in reaction to the Oslo summit
By Rukhshana Media The first Taliban delegation to the West, as the de facto authority of Afghanistan, left the Afghan...
Seven killed in an explosion in Herat
By Rukhshana Media In an explosion in a Hazara-Shia neighborhood in the western city of Herat on Saturday, at least...
The Taliban took away a women activist and her sisters “in chains,” a family member says
By Rukhshana Media A family member of the woman activist, Tamana Zaryab Paryani, told Rukhshana Media that the Taliban arrested...
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