Women’s mental health deteriorates following the Taliban’s takeover
Women make up 75 percent of those who visit Herat regional mental health hospital for counseling and psychotherapy, officials at...
Reports
Female Artists Hold Exhibition in Herat
It was the third art exhibition in Herat after the fall of the former government last August. Few people visited...
A woman and a man were stoned to death in Badakhshan
A young woman and a man were stoned to death for alleged adultery in the northeastern province of Badakhshan last...
Afghan children work in the street after their fathers’ disappearance
Rukhshana Media journalists spoke with two teenage girls, whose fathers disappeared, in Kandahar and Ghazni provinces after the fall of...
The number of child labourers is growing in Bamyan
By Nargis Amini On a chilly morning, when snow-covered Bamiyan city, I met a shivering 8-year-old girl who was getting...
Former security forces fear being hunted down when applying for passports
In early December, Maryam*, a former police officer, set fire to her uniform and 6-year career in a courtyard in...
Taliban extorting street vendors under the guise of “preventing vices”
Rukhshana Media Since taking over the country, the Taliban have issued several decrees to implement the Taliban’s understanding of Sharia...
Taliban prohibits press conferences without their permission
By Zahra Nader The Afghanistan Federation of Journalists and Media said the Taliban cancelled their press conference on Wednesday and...
“It is difficult to work as a journalist under a burqa in a gender-segregated environment,” say women journalists under Taliban
By Laila Yousufy Two weeks after the Taliban takeover, when more than 600 women journalists out of a total of...
‘I’ve already sold my daughters; now, my kidney’: winter in Afghanistan’s slums
Since leaving the family home in the country’s Badghis province four years ago, the Rahmatis have been living in a...
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