‘Tomorrow they will kill me’: Afghan female police officers live in fear of Taliban reprisals
Negar Masumi, a female police officer with 15 years of experience, was determined not to flee when the Taliban took...
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Reports
‘They came for my daughter’: Afghan single mothers face losing children under Taliban
By Zahra Joya Published by Rukhshana Media and The Guardian The day after Mazar-i-Sharif, the provincial capital of Balkh province,...
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‘I worry my daughters will never know peace’: women flee the Taliban – again
by Zainab Pirzad, Atefa Alizada and Rubaba Rezai Published By Rukhshana Media and The Guardian It was an exceptionally hot summer morning, on 13...
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‘Nowhere to go’: divorced Afghan women in peril as the Taliban close in
ByLida Ahmadi Published by Rukhshana Media and The Guardian There’s an old saying in Afghanistan that encapsulates the country’s views on divorce: “A...
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Afghan women’s defiance and despair: ‘I never thought I’d have to wear a burqa. My identity will be lost’
By Zainab Pirzad and Atefa Alizada Published by Rukhshana Media and The Guardian In a market in Kabul, Aref is doing...
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‘Sometimes I have to pick up a gun’: the female Afghan governor resisting the Taliban
by Zainab Pirzad Published by Rukhshana Media and The Guardian It is early morning in Charkint, in the northern Balkh province...
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The wife and children of a fallen soldier are starving
When Firoozeh’s husband left home to join military service, she and her five children remained in a poor village on...
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