Women seeking to report street crime are turned away by Taliban police for not making complaint through male chaperone
Rahima’s been robbed twice in four months in Balkh’s capital Mazar-e-Sharif. Adding to her distress is police refused to hear...
Reports
Two women’s account of bitter experience in the Taliban prison
Here are Zarifa and Hakima’s first-person accounts of their arrests, detention, and treatment. Their experience of abuse, coercion and torture...
New ‘Door to Door’ initiative supports Afghan girls to learn tougher subjects in secret schools
Before becoming a student in a secret school in western Herat province, Afsana passed her days stuck at home. She’s...
Taliban arrest dozens of women and girls for “improper” clothing in Kabul
The Taliban is cracking down on female clothing in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul in a new wave of suppression targeting girls...
The tragedy of the loss of female reporters in western Afghanistan
Threats have followed Baran* for the six years she’s worked in the media. But the challenges of working under Taliban...
Burdensome dowries in Nuristan prompt calls for change and price caps
Critics of the tradition of exchanging goods to secure a wife in the eastern Afghanistan province of Nuristan say the...
The ongoing torture after Taliban detention of women who called for their rights
These are the stories of three women who have all been detained by Taliban forces and subjected to torture. It...
Latest shooting of Shia-Hazaras in Herat stokes anger at Taliban with calls for the authorities to protect the ethnic group
Residents of Jibril reported that a white Toyota Fielder without number plates drove high-speed through the Kora-e-Milli area and opened...
Afghan women launch YouTube channels in defiance of Taliban ban on girls’ education
It was one day after Afghanistan’s new rulers closed girls’ high schools when Basira Mohammadi decided she would teach lessons...
Hazara family loses father and son in ISIS bomb attack on Kabul neighborhood
“I wish I hadn't allowed my son to go to work that day, otherwise he would be sitting next to...
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