“Dry bread” is the dream: Deepening poverty in Herat
A cool wind blows through the city of Herat. It’s mid-autumn and dozens of women peddlers are sitting in the...
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Life for Afghan women under the Taliban flag
The Taliban have issued nearly forty decrees and orders related to controlling the behaviour and movement of women in the...
Taliban violence extends to hospitals; from demanding priority and imposing restrictions to beating doctors
Dr. Dawood* was treating a patient in the Abu Ali Sinai Balkhi seminary hospital in the Mazar-e-Sharif city about a...
Aid or insult? Bamyan food packages deliver rotten flour to families
Marzia left her house on a cold, rainy day at the end of fall to pick up an aid package...
Volunteer teachers defy odds to set up Bamyan education center
A mother with a baby in her arms stands facing the whiteboard. She is solving a math problem at an...
Taliban checks under schoolgirls skirts “for jeans and fitted pants”
It was 9AM on a Thursday morning when six members of the Taliban morality police visited sixteen-year-old Spozhmai's class. The...
Taliban forces relentlessly abuse women on the pretext of improper hijabs
Forced to remain mostly at home since Afghanistan fell to the Taliban in August last year, Somaiya Shams* is devastated...
Book donations grow for Kaaj memorial library
A campaign to establish a library in Kabul commemorated to the victims of the Kaaj education center bombing is gaining...
The girls missing from the Kankor results – and missing out on education
After many years of girls being in the top of Afghanistan’s university entrance results, this year there were no girls...
Hardened hands and calloused hearts: the extreme working lives of women in Bamyan
The hot sun beats down, shining directly overhead. The forehead of 22-year-old Basma gleams with sweat. She has been working...
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