“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...
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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....
Back to square one; Balkh women deprived of education turn to carpet-weaving machines
They should be sitting in classrooms. But countless girls are instead sitting behind sewing tables or weaving carpets in carpet...
Poor sales threaten one of the last avenues for women to earn money
Rukhshana Media spoke to several women struggling to survive in the handicraft sector in the southern Afghan province of Zabul.
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