In Balkh, women are using online business to beat Taliban restrictions
She spends her days checking messages on social media. Sometimes she goes to Facebook, sometimes WhatsApp and sometimes Instagram to...
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The war may be over. But its land mines continue to maim and kill
On a hot summer morning, 16-year-old Ahmadullah took his flock of sheep to a part of the village to graze....
“If it wasn’t for my children, I would have committed suicide”: A life enduring domestic violence
“Every time my husband comes home without finding work, he starts fighting with me,” Benafsha, 31, says. She and her...
The fountain of knowledge in the heart of the desert; A library in Ghor province
Eighteen-year-old Ozra dreams of becoming a famous writer. It sounds an impossible dream in one of Afghanistan’s most deprived and...
“I paint my sorrows and those of girls imprisoned in Afghanistan.” The life of an Afghan woman painter
I am an ambitious, dreamy girl from Afghanistan who has always aspired to be a positive personality with the ultimate...
Finding life after the Taliban
It was the first day after a Taliban decree in December banning women from working in foreign and domestic NGOs....
Water scarcity in Kabul adds to pressure on women and children
Residents of the Asya Bini of Regression area in west Kabul, say the company has demanded customers pay 20,000 Afghanis...
The Taliban killed her sons, and the grief drove their mother insane
In a village in the center of Bamyan, lives a woman with white hair and a wrinkled face who we’ll...
Child mortality on the rise in Bamyan, poverty and Taliban inaction blamed
One local, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Rukhshana Media that 30 cases of measles and 60 chickenpox infections...
“Why is my school class closed?”: a Kandahari girl asks her father
“It was the last exam of her sixth grade. I congratulated her that she would now be a seventh-grade student....
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