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They should be sitting in classrooms. But countless girls are instead sitting behind sewing tables or weaving carpets in carpet...

Rukhshana Media spoke to several women struggling to survive in the handicraft sector in the southern Afghan province of Zabul.

She puts the violin on her left shoulder and moves the bow slowly over the strings. Manizha Rahimi says the...

Her body is still covered in bruises and wounds. Her thighs especially bear marks of a brutal beating by the...

Women’s rights activists have called on the UN to recognize the Taliban’s restrictions on women’s rights as crimes against humanity.

Shahla has found them to be dangerous and distressing workplaces, where female staff risk sexual harassment, verbal humiliation, and even...

On May first, Shukria Rezayi* checked her email account nervously. After weeks of waiting, she had almost given up hope....

A cold spring wind is blowing on a cloudy day in Dar-e-Ali (Ali Valley) in Bamyan’s Yakawlang district. It is...

Twenty years of the Taliban war have left many victims; not only soldiers killed on the battlefield but their wives...

In Badghis province, a group of girls gather around a radio. It’s three o’clock on a Saturday afternoon and they...