Former security forces fear being hunted down when applying for passports
In early December, Maryam*, a former police officer, set fire to her uniform and 6-year career in a courtyard in...
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Taliban extorting street vendors under the guise of “preventing vices”
Rukhshana Media Since taking over the country, the Taliban have issued several decrees to implement the Taliban’s understanding of Sharia...
Taliban prohibits press conferences without their permission
By Zahra Nader The Afghanistan Federation of Journalists and Media said the Taliban cancelled their press conference on Wednesday and...
“It is difficult to work as a journalist under a burqa in a gender-segregated environment,” say women journalists under Taliban
By Laila Yousufy Two weeks after the Taliban takeover, when more than 600 women journalists out of a total of...
‘I’ve already sold my daughters; now, my kidney’: winter in Afghanistan’s slums
Since leaving the family home in the country’s Badghis province four years ago, the Rahmatis have been living in a...
“Every step taken toward the Taliban is a step taken against the people of Afghanistan,” women say in reaction to the Oslo summit
By Rukhshana Media The first Taliban delegation to the West, as the de facto authority of Afghanistan, left the Afghan...
These women were looked down on when they worked in the army. Now they’ve been abandoned in a “dungeon”
By Laila Yousufy For nearly ten years, Major Sama* worked in the former Ministry of Defense in the Afghan capital...
Four months on, the director of women’s prison in Herat is still missing. Calls grow for her release
On September 29, the director of the women’s prison in the western city of Herat went missing. Now, her family...
Taliban ideology and the question of women
By A. Froogh Since August 15, with the Taliban's return to power, women’s social and political rights have been under...
Under the Taliban ban, Afghan actor suffers to make ends meet
By M. Mursal Five days before the Taliban took over the western city of Herat, Masooda Ahmadi* was fired from...
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