Afghan women capitalize on enforced confinement and online study to forge opportunities for international education
Zahra* is the kind of woman the Taliban had hoped to eradicate. Despite Taliban decrees cutting her off from any...
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The empty table of Iftar: A family barely surviving on bread and tea
“The children have grown. They understand everything. I spend the whole day thinking about what to serve them for Iftar,”...
Taliban broadcasts explainer on ‘retribution’ punishments after supreme leader declares women to be stoned to death
The Taliban has doubled down on its commitment to enforce brutal punishments, including stoning women to death for adultery, with...
‘Our hands are empty, but our will is strong’: Women who survived the first Taliban regime inspire the next generation with a secret school
Monira was only nine years old when the Taliban first took control of Afghanistan in the 1990s. Back then, as...
Afghan girls grapple with crushing despair as their third Nawruz passes without hope of an education
Basira’s* dreams were beyond the stars - literally. She wanted to be an astronaut. But she’s only graduated from the...
Taliban allegedly using fake female social media accounts to portray widespread support from Afghan women
An analysis of women’s social media accounts on X, formerly Twitter, has revealed some accounts purporting to be women may...
Marziya forged an unconventional path to the elite police unit, but then the Taliban stripped away her rights. Now she struggles for basic bread
Married off as a teenager to a man she didn’t know, attending class with a new baby in her arms,...
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...
The changing face of Afghan shoe polishers as women turn to the male-dominated profession for income
Shrouded in a blue burqa sitting on a worn-out brown mat, Nabila* spreads a brightly-coloured cloth on the ground and...
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...
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