The girls and women being married off to avoid forced marriage with a Talib
The text message read “I like you and I want to marry you.” Yasra* received it one night from one...
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I put my children up for auction just as my father sold me when I was 10: The cycles of lack and abuse keeping families in poverty
In the early hours of the morning in southern Ghazni city, many women who live in poverty leave their homes...
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Helmand districts still paying high price for the US-led war as lack of reconstruction bites
Residents in one of the most remote and deprived districts of Helmand during the 20 years of the US-led war...
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The Taliban’s public displays of brutality and dead people is deliberate – and psychologically destructive
The Al-Mahdi township in the west of Herat city was silent. Some panicked. Taliban forces had hung the bloodied bodies...
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Firsthand account of the extreme violence plaguing women prisons in Balkh
A pregnant woman, who had protested in Balkh province for women’s rights, suffered such a beating from Taliban guards that...
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“You betrayed us more than a soldier”: Being a journalist in Afghanistan and the state of the media on National Journalist Day
Not only is war fought with weapons, it’s also a battle of information. Such was the sentiment behind one Taliban...
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Herati 13-year-old forced into marriage to help her family survive
a used to stand at the gate of her house and watch school students passing by. She heard the groups...
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Taliban authorities threaten victims and relatives as they close ranks to cover up the alleged involvement of Taliban members in a shocking gang rape
Tribal elders, Afghan communities and international groups are calling on Taliban authorities to properly investigate a brutal gang rape of...
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Taliban restrictions compound the challenges of already disadvantaged Herati circus students
. The juggling ends and everyone breaks out into claps and cheers. The circus show is a moment of levity...
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Rukhshana Media’s message; March 8 is a day of solidarity with the liberating force of history
Being a woman has become tantamount to being a criminal in Afghanistan. The dreams of a generation are being destroyed....
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