Cases

Working as a journalist, I have come to rely a great deal on social media and the connections it opens...

The Taliban, with their decree, have imposed a deadly silence on this land - a deep silence of despair, a...

The death of a 19-year-old tailor in Bamyan province after being detained by the Taliban has become a mystery that...

This is the second of two parts of an interview with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai and the director...

Malala Yousafzai:  When I hear the uproar of Afghan women that they’ve been abandoned, I think there’s a strong reason...

Rukhshana Media and The Guardian has seen video evidence of a female Afghan human rights activist being gang-raped and tortured...

Just over three years ago, Asma’s* future contained many possibilities. Aged 15, she was at secondary school. After that lay...

These are the stories of three women who have all been detained by Taliban forces and subjected to torture. It...

Ali Safari* lives in lower Rigshad, a village in Afghanistan’s central Bamyan province. But for two months he has not...

In the history of human societies, there has been oppression of women. But none so systemic with their complete exclusion...