One of the few remaining female surgeons at a major hospital in western Afghanistan was prevented from entering and detained for several hours on Monday.
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On the fourth anniversary of Afghanistan’s fall to the Taliban, videos on social media showed two women posting slogans on walls in Kabul in Farsi and English branding it a “dark day for Afghanistan” and offering “condolences for chained freedom”.
Read moreDetailsThis week, an Afghan teacher got in touch with a message. She had written a short essay about the suppression of girls’ education in Afghanistan and the hypocrisy of those behind it. She wanted us to share it with you, our readers, “not for pity, but for awareness, outrage, and change”. It is a powerful piece of writing that, as...
When Afghanistan lost all internet access last Monday, Rukhshana Media reporter Hania Forootan* ventured out to check on friends and see how people were being affected. What she saw in the streets of Kabul filled her with anxiety.
When the Taliban were toppled from power in 2001, many women in Afghanistan kept wearing the burqa, even though they were no longer required to do so
Raihana will never forget the day when a suicide bomber blew up her school in Afghanistan, killing more than 50 people.
Soraya has tears in her eyes as she recalls the day nearly two years ago when armed men came for her daughter Karishma, who’s now 21. The young woman’s crime: refusing to marry a member of Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban.
On the fourth anniversary of Afghanistan’s fall to the Taliban, videos on social media showed two women posting slogans on walls in Kabul in Farsi and English branding it a “dark day for Afghanistan” and offering “condolences for chained freedom”.
