What does August 15 remind you?
The Taliban have imposed new regulations and restrictions during the first year of their rule, pulling the entire country back...
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‘Our thoughts are with you,’ British retired teacher’s message to Afghan women
We need to create a plan to help us fight back. It may be a long time before we can...
Excluding women and girls from education and from the workplace is madness
Dear Afghan sisters history has not been kind to you. You have had a few heroines in the past, and...
The Taliban cannot kill the spirit of Afghan girls and women
I pay taxes and vote in the US and feel complicit in the tragedy that has unfolded over the last...
‘Unstoppable,’: The journey of a young woman from American University of Afghanistan to Rutgers University in the U.S.
After she read about Russian soldiers raping women and spent her last bit of money buying birth control pills, carrying...
‘I dream I am still in Afghanistan,’ activist who fled the Taliban says
Throughout her life, Basira, a 24-year-old activist campaigning for the rights of the Afghan LGBTQ community, believed the West had...
She taught thousands to become teacher in Kabul. Now, she has become a student in London
Sahra Alizai has spent half of her life teaching. Now, far from her native Kabul in the boxy London hotel...
She was a biology teacher in Afghanistan. Now, she works in a restaurant in Brazil
Najiba Ebrahimi lives in Freedom. It’s the São Paulo neighborhood where the 33-year-old has settled and what she feels she’s...
Afghan female military pilots work as waitresses in a mall in Florida
Despite the Taliban’s pledge of “amnesty” for those linked to the ousted Afghan government, members of the security forces were...
Female artist uses art to document violence thousands of miles away in her home country
For many years, Hazara artist and photographer Zahra Khodadadi, 31, fixed her lens on families in Afghanistan, exploring the ties...
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