Taliban arrest dozens of young Afghan women over hijab rules
Dozens of young women were detained in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday and taken into custody in an unknown...
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How a young Afghan entrepreneur set up a thriving food business in the world’s worst country to be female
Three years ago, as the Taliban regime set about imposing ever tighter restrictions on women’s freedoms, Mahroo decided to throw...
Taliban forces using electric shocks on Afghan women over dress
Taliban forces are administering electric shocks to women over breaches of a hijab mandate so strict it even requires them...
ICC issues warrant for Taliban’s supreme leader for persecution of women
The international criminal court has issued arrest warrants for two senior Taliban leaders, accusing them of crimes against humanity for the persecution...
‘Obsessed with revenge’: The Afghan women trapped with abusers they tried to stop
Six years ago, Saeeda* defied the norms of her traditional Afghan community and ran away from home to marry a...
Taliban arrest Afghan media workers over promotion of feminism
The Taliban say they have arrested two employees of an Afghan cultural organisation that makes short films about life in...
How Afghanistan’s education ban has shattered the lives of rural women
When Lina* became one of the few girls from her district in rural Afghanistan to win a place at university,...
From a child sold to a mother on the brink of selling her own
Her cracked lips seemed to scream the wounds of her life. Blood seeped from the fissures in her parched skin,...
‘No one will take the side of a woman alone’ – one Afghan widow’s desperate fight for her children
But if life was hard before 2021, that was nothing compared to what Hadia faces now. As well as being...
‘No matter the cost’ – Afghanistan’s secret schools survive against the odds
Mahnaz was just 15 when the Taliban returned to power and brought in a blanket ban on older girls attending...
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