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...
Reports
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...
Herati 13-year-old forced into marriage to help her family survive
a used to stand at the gate of her house and watch school students passing by. She heard the groups...
Taliban authorities threaten victims and relatives as they close ranks to cover up the alleged involvement of Taliban members in a shocking gang rape
Tribal elders, Afghan communities and international groups are calling on Taliban authorities to properly investigate a brutal gang rape of...
Taliban restrictions compound the challenges of already disadvantaged Herati circus students
. The juggling ends and everyone breaks out into claps and cheers. The circus show is a moment of levity...
In the trap of poverty, a 9-year-old girl becomes a victim of her brother’s medical bills
Nine-year-old Hasiba was playing with her older sister one February evening when there was a knock at the family door....
A defiant model uses beauty and art to protest the Taliban’s rules
A 29-year-old model in Herat is protesting against the restrictions on her life using the medium she knows best –...
Daughters of Wisdom – the center supporting Afghan girls and women to get to university
An Afghan educational center is providing free services to girls and women in secret to get international university scholarships, with...
The homebound and shattered women poets of Kandahar
Yalda Sarab no longer writes love poems. These days, she pours herself into tragic poems for women. She says she...
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