{"id":22548,"date":"2024-01-04T12:55:34","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T08:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rukhshana.com\/?p=22548"},"modified":"2024-01-04T12:55:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T08:25:36","slug":"the-tragedy-of-the-loss-of-female-reporters-in-western-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rukhshana.com\/en\/the-tragedy-of-the-loss-of-female-reporters-in-western-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"The tragedy of the loss of female reporters in western Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Ellaha Rasa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Threats have followed Baran* for the six years she\u2019s worked in the media. But the challenges of working under Taliban rule have made the job almost impossible. Most female journalists have either stopped working or left the country altogether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Baran, 24, says the situation is \u201cunbearable\u201d with female journalists facing blanket \u201cgender discrimination\u201d and \u201cmisogyny\u201d from the de facto authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMale journalists are members of social media groups with the officials from the local Taliban office, and they only cooperate with the men in most cases,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBut because we are women and we do not have a letter from the governor&#8217;s office, the officials do not want to meet and interview us, and even don\u2019t answer our calls.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Kabul University graduate has worked for both foreign and local outlets, travelling to various locations for her work. But Taliban-imposed restrictions on women\u2019s movement have impacted the possibility of continuing this practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI need to do interviews and video reports. For that, I must be in the community and among the people and go to remote areas, but I cannot freely go to the districts or remote areas,\u201d Baran says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Baran says her husband was detained by Taliban forces in the local police district and he was interrogated about her work, before he was made to sign a letter of commitment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey called my husband to the police district and said that the reports I had made during the Republic government were not acceptable to them, and they made him promise I would not make any more reports against the Taliban government,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Female journalists in the western region of Afghanistan say that Taliban\u2019s Vice and Virtue department visit media offices at least once a month to check women are wearing clothed is according to their standards and that men and women colleagues are separated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Samira* has been working as a reporter for four years since a media internship in the eleventh grade with a local media outlet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She says that the arrival of the Taliban has drastically altered women\u2019s representation in the media and female journalists face a \u201cdark future\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn the last two years, the presence of women in the media has decreased and the presence of reporters, presenters and anchors in the local media has decreased, but the female reporters who have accepted the difficulties and continued their work are also afraid to encounter the detention for publishing news that is against the Taliban\u2019s ideology,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Samira goes to her office wearing a namaz chadar or all-covering hijab to adhere to the Taliban officials who come to her office to examine how women are dressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She says that most women journalists are not able to conduct field reports, and those who still work feel safer continuing their journalism from their homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like 22-year-old Nasima*, who is still one of the few women hosting a radio program in the western region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Due to the travel and segregation restrictions on women, she records her program at home every week and sends it to the local radio station for broadcast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She is not allowed to have male guests for interviews. Furthermore, she says female journalists are also not allowed to participate in conferences, programs of Taliban members, and press meetings of the Taliban\u2019s Vice and Virtue employees with media officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Muzhda*, a journalism graduate from Herat University says some of the journalists prefer not to reveal their profession to the de facto authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere are restrictions for female reporters, anchors and presenters, and female reporters who work with foreign media are afraid of being arrested and imprisoned by the Taliban. Some don\u2019t even get a journalist&#8217;s card from the Department of Information and Culture, so they work as journalists secretly, and most of their work is not in the field,\u201d Muzhda says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These restrictions also result in further discrimination from employers, she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe media officials take advantage of the current situation and when hiring, they prefer male reporters. If they hire female employees, they will be hired with a much lower salary than men.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Muzhda has attempted to cover meetings of Taliban officials with her male media colleagues, but says she is stopped at the entrance gate and not allowed to enter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Within months of taking control of Afghanistan, the Taliban began cracking down on women in the media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In November 2021, the group released an eight-article instruction that banned women from acting in plays and television series. Afghan media chiefs were directed not to broadcast anything against Islamic Sharia, a far-reaching directive that would include foreign television shows and music. And female news presenters were required to wear face coverings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parwana, 25, worked for four years as an anchor and reporter in one of the local radio stations in Farah province. After the collapse of the Afghan government in 2021, she became home-bound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFarah province is a remote province with a very traditional values. Before the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban, security threats were the obstacle for women journalists, but during the last two years, women&#8217;s media activities in Farah have stopped and no women or girls are working in the media&#8217;s anchoring and reporting departments.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parwana suspended her work in Farah for a while when the Taliban took power out of concern for her safety, but she wants to return to work when the situation improves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI stayed at home because women were not allowed to work in the media. Not only me, but most of the women journalists in this province are unemployed and are facing mental and emotional problems,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But like dozens of other female journalists, Parwana does not see herself returning to work as a journalist during Taliban rule and has started studying midwifery in one of the institutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI made a lot of effort in the media sector, but due to this situation, all my goals and dreams were lost,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sohaila Erfani, a professor at Journalism and Mass Communication at Herat University, says that during the republic, Herat province was a pioneer in the field of teaching journalistic skills to the young generation, which included students from most parts of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Herat Journalism Faculty started in 2011 with two departments of Journalism and Public Communication, and before that operated as the Department of Literature and Human Resources from 2002-2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ms Erfani says before the Taliban takeover, girls\u2019 interest in working in the media had grown significantly and they soon made up about half of the students every year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She is dismayed at the decimation of women in the media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA female journalist can better communicate with her gender and express her pain and write from her point of view, but with the imposition of restrictions, the voices of all women have been silenced,\u201d she says. <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Rukhshana Media\u2019s investigation, before the Taliban takeover there were at least 100 women working in the media in Herat province and at least 60 more women media workers in other western provinces of Farah, Badghis, Nimroz, and Ghor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today it is unclear how many are still working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Atifa Ghafoori, former head of the women&#8217;s department of the Committee for the Protection of Journalists in Afghanistan\u2019s West Zone, says that the significant decrease in the activity of women in reporting and media activities indicates a fundamental crisis in this field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA female journalist has felt the problems of women with flesh, skin, and bones and has raised their voices to women&#8217;s rights organizations and the world,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn the last 20 years, women journalists have been successful in fighting violence, but stopping the work of women journalists alone is a form of violence against women.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The people interviewed for this report did not want to disclose the province where they work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*Note: Names are chosen as pseudonyms due to security concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Threats have followed Baran* for the six years she\u2019s worked in the media. 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