Daughters of Wisdom – the center supporting Afghan girls and women to get to university
An Afghan educational center is providing free services to girls and women in secret to get international university scholarships, with...
Featured
The homebound and shattered women poets of Kandahar
Yalda Sarab no longer writes love poems. These days, she pours herself into tragic poems for women. She says she...
‘Knowledge Envoy’: A university student’s mobile library for girls in Balkh
It doesn't matter if the weather is hot or cold, sunny or snowing. What matters is Matin Sediq has a...
The gender violence Afghan women experience since birth
Parwana was still in her mother's womb when her parents found out she was a girl. They were disappointed –...
They killed my husband and stole my children’s bread: one woman’s pain at the hands of the Taliban
Growing up in Afghanistan, Soraya, 37, lived far from the Taliban’s influence. But their beliefs and practices still reached her...
Herati transgender people struggle to survive under Taliban rule
Yaqubi*, a teenager in Afghanistan’s western province of Herat, identifies as a woman and prefers to be called Mahnaz, but...
Curling, once growing in popularity in Afghanistan, has become a casualty of the Taliban restrictions on girls and women
Every year, as the cooler temperatures take hold, Band-e-Sabzak (Sabzak Lake) freezes over with a thick layer of ice -...
Taliban soldiers still occupying girls’ hostel in Ghazni province
Taliban fighters in Ghazni province have taken over a girls’ hostel and used it as a military base, according to...
Taliban have banned the sale of contraceptives
The Taliban have quietly stopped contraceptives from being sold to women in Kabul and Balkh provinces, ordering pharmacies and drug...
Controversial methods of corporal punishment still rife in local schools
“God forbid if we fail an evaluation. For instance, if we can’t remember a past lesson, we will be whipped...
Address: 1 The Sanctuary, London SW1P 3JT