We mustn’t normalize the ‘deeply disturbing’ treatment of Afghan women: Q&A with Heather Barr, Human Rights Watch
It’s also a day when many Afghan women and girls will, I’m sure, be having feelings of betrayal about the...
Analysis
Fear with no escape: a woman navigates the chokehold on her freedom under the Taliban’s threat of detention
These days, I’m afraid to leave the house. Ever since the Taliban detentions of girls and women began, the crowds...
Analysis: A link between the oppression of women and ethnic cleansing
A shocking fact was admitted in a recent report from the UN Assistance Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA) on the human...
Victim of shame
It was a hot summer’s day when Farzana’s family travelled west from Kandahar province in Afghanistan’s south to the neighboring...
The risk of normalizing fundamentalism after two years of Taliban rule
Each day the rule of the Taliban continues, the conditions for girls and women become more inhumane. Commentary on Afghanistan...
Not just the political system, the very fabric of Afghanistan collapsed: a personal account of the Taliban takeover
I started an internship with a journalism classmate at one of Herat’s TV stations in August 2021. We had barely...
Afghan women’s struggle is not only against the Taliban, but also with each other
In the history of human societies, there has been oppression of women. But none so systemic with their complete exclusion...
Women, Prison and Life: Stories of heroism despite grief
In our geography, being a woman is equivalent to suffering. A woman in every form has woven her web of...
Letter to my daughters: It’s so hard for a father to have his daughter’s childhood stolen by the ignorant
I am writing this letter after almost two years away from you. You were deprived of your father’s warm embrace...
Letter To My Daughter: Let’s look for the light in the heart of darkness
“I have not yet become a mother to understand the pain of having a daughter in these times; But as...
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