Trikh Nawar, ‘slaughterhouse’ of Helmand, where children’s only education has been war
Already 15 years old, Hematullah still dreams of going to school. But in his hometown of Trikh Nawar, he has...
Reports
Gul Bibi: a Kandahari woman’s life of struggle that began with child marriage
Gul Bibi’s life took an abrupt turn after her 13th birthday. She had been living the carefree of a child...
Afghan artist leans hard into the banned creative arts to survive the Taliban’s harsh restrictions
Mursal Badakhsh finds solace in strumming her guitar. As the soothing sounds fill her room, she escapes the difficulties of...
Journalists banned from interviewing women in Helmand, two weeks after photo and video reports were banned in the province
Helmand province's Department of Information and Culture has told a journalist he can no longer interview women.
The girls and women being married off to avoid forced marriage with a Talib
The text message read “I like you and I want to marry you.” Yasra* received it one night from one...
I put my children up for auction just as my father sold me when I was 10: The cycles of lack and abuse keeping families in poverty
In the early hours of the morning in southern Ghazni city, many women who live in poverty leave their homes...
Helmand districts still paying high price for the US-led war as lack of reconstruction bites
Residents in one of the most remote and deprived districts of Helmand during the 20 years of the US-led war...
The Taliban’s public displays of brutality and dead people is deliberate – and psychologically destructive
The Al-Mahdi township in the west of Herat city was silent. Some panicked. Taliban forces had hung the bloodied bodies...
Firsthand account of the extreme violence plaguing women prisons in Balkh
A pregnant woman, who had protested in Balkh province for women’s rights, suffered such a beating from Taliban guards that...
“You betrayed us more than a soldier”: Being a journalist in Afghanistan and the state of the media on National Journalist Day
Not only is war fought with weapons, it’s also a battle of information. Such was the sentiment behind one Taliban...
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