When the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan closed amid escalating tensions between the two neighbours, Somaya Nadari’s mother lost access...

This week, an Afghan teacher got in touch with a message. She had written a short essay about the suppression...

When the Taliban issued a decree barring women from attending universities, “it felt like everything was over,” she says. “I...

Ever since Najiba* lost her job teaching at a girls’ middle school in northern Afghanistan, life at home has been...

Dozens of young women were detained in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday and taken into custody in an unknown...

Three years ago, as the Taliban regime set about imposing ever tighter restrictions on women’s freedoms, Mahroo decided to throw...

Six years ago, Saeeda* defied the norms of her traditional Afghan community and ran away from home to marry a...

Her cracked lips seemed to scream the wounds of her life. Blood seeped from the fissures in her parched skin,...

Mahnaz was just 15 when the Taliban returned to power and brought in a blanket ban on older girls attending...

Adiba set up her shop in a market in the city of Mazar-e-Sharif that the Taliban set up for women...