‘It felt as if the city had fallen again’: Rukhshana reporters on the internet shutdown
When Afghanistan lost all internet access last Monday, Rukhshana Media reporter Hania Forootan* ventured out to check on friends and...
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Taliban orders schools to drop arts and culture teaching for more religion
Lessons in arts and culture or civic engagement are out. In their place, a renewed focus on religious studies, Sharia...
Swimming against the tide: How one Afghan woman followed her passion
By Nilofar Niekpor Zamani Shukria Qurbani used to spend every weekend at the pool, training with her young students. Swimming...
Afghan Women Protest Removal of Photos from National ID Cards
A move by the Taliban to remove women’s images from national identity cards on request has sparked protests from human...
How One Afghan Woman is Taking on Child Hunger
Every morning, Rana Tawakol* spends an hour and a half walking to the clinic where she works in a remote...
Taliban launch crackdown on Afghanistan’s secret beauty salons
The Taliban have issued an order targeting underground beauty salons operating in secret across Afghanistan, warning the women running them that...
Taliban abuses risk being normalised in Afghanistan, campaigners warn
When the Taliban were toppled from power in 2001, many women in Afghanistan kept wearing the burqa, even though they...
Against all odds: The Afghan women becoming entrepreneurs
When the Taliban issued a decree barring women from attending universities, “it felt like everything was over,” she says. “I...
“We have nowhere to go” – Afghan families forced out of Iran face poverty and destitution
In a corner of a large park in the ancient Afghan city of Herat, a young woman sits and rocks...
An invisible crisis: The mental health struggles of Afghan children
Ever since Najiba* lost her job teaching at a girls’ middle school in northern Afghanistan, life at home has been...
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