‘Frightening’ Taliban law bans women from speaking in public
New Taliban laws that prohibit women from speaking or showing their faces outside their homes have been condemned by the UN and...
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Nangarhar mother seeks buyer for her six-year-old daughter to cover medical costs from husband’s car accident
The 41-year-old mother of four took out loans six months ago after her husband was severely injured in a car...
Justice for Afghan woman viciously murdered in Iran faces financial and legal hurdles as authorities ignore husband’s pleas for help
Hanifa Shirzad took her six-and-a-half-year-old daughter by the hand and left home in Tehran on the morning of June 24...
Teen’s death in Bamyan ruled a suicide as locals argue it’s a cover up
The death of a 19-year-old tailor in Bamyan province after being detained by the Taliban has become a mystery that...
Three years of gender apartheid and the pathology of the disappearance of human rights for women
While systemic and continuous misogyny persists on one hand, on the other, advocacy efforts to fight this hostility have lacked...
Defying the Taliban: Afghan makeup artist’s passion and dreams amidst repression
The courtyard of Mehri’s* home is tastefully decorated with colorful flowers. Off the courtyard, is the small room that serves...
The young Afghan women determine to pursue higher education in defiance of Taliban rules
The day the Taliban stopped Somaiya Aswadi and her friends from entering the university campus, she swore she’d never submit...
“It’s like August 15 all over again”: Afghan family stranded in Pakistan by Germany
The email cancelling Zulaikha's* asylum claim in Germany came without warning more than a year after she’d uprooted her family...
The campaign of #EndGenderApartheid in Afghanistan
It's nearly three years since the brutal restrictions on girls and women of Afghanistan began making national and international headlines....
Trapped in poverty, Malalai forces daughters to marry young despite her own traumatic experience of it
It was getting dark in the crowded Pol-e Sokhta street of western Kabul, but Malalai*, with her wheelbarrow of ice...
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