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...
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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...
The tragedy of maternal mortality: Every hour, a woman in Afghanistan loses her life during childbirth
It was midnight when another wave of pain struck. Begum, 35, thought it was finally time for her child to...
In Conversation with Malala part 2: On the power of women’s protest, overcoming the injustice of education bans, and a message of hope
This is the second of two parts of an interview with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai and the director...
In Conversation with Malala part 1: On the importance of codifying gender apartheid as a crime against humanity and the difference it will make
Malala Yousafzai: When I hear the uproar of Afghan women that they’ve been abandoned, I think there’s a strong reason...
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