Reports

It was getting dark in the crowded Pol-e Sokhta street of western Kabul, but Malalai*, with her wheelbarrow of ice...

It was midnight when another wave of pain struck. Begum, 35, thought it was finally time for her child to...

The 25-year-old watched a group of girls graduating from grade six, sobbing that they could no longer continue. Under rules...

A Taliban raid on her wedding day in northern Badakhshan province has left her devastated - and her brother in...

Salima, 24, suspected he was a member of the “morality police” – the term for enforcers of strict codes of...

Rukhshana Media and The Guardian has seen video evidence of a female Afghan human rights activist being gang-raped and tortured...

Zeba* sat atop the Buddha cliffs in Bamyan province watching the sunset and people below passing by, recalling the days...

It’s the day before Eid. Two girls Shukria, 12, and Shegufa, 9, are standing in the full midday sun near...

Hasina was so brutally bashed by her husband that she had a miscarriage when she was six months pregnant. But...

Just over three years ago, Asma’s* future contained many possibilities. Aged 15, she was at secondary school. After that lay...