Reports

She was the sole breadwinner raising her young family, but Gul-e-Badam considered herself lucky – with her government salary and...

Rahima’s been robbed twice in four months in Balkh’s capital Mazar-e-Sharif. Adding to her distress is police refused to hear...

Here are Zarifa and Hakima’s first-person accounts of their arrests, detention, and treatment. Their experience of abuse, coercion and torture...

Before becoming a student in a secret school in western Herat province, Afsana passed her days stuck at home. She’s...

The Taliban is cracking down on female clothing in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul in a new wave of suppression targeting girls...

Threats have followed Baran* for the six years she’s worked in the media. But the challenges of working under Taliban...

Critics of the tradition of exchanging goods to secure a wife in the eastern Afghanistan province of Nuristan say the...

These are the stories of three women who have all been detained by Taliban forces and subjected to torture. It...

Residents of Jibril reported that a white Toyota Fielder without number plates drove high-speed through the Kora-e-Milli area and opened...

It was one day after Afghanistan’s new rulers closed girls’ high schools when Basira Mohammadi decided she would teach lessons...