投稿者: Ruchi Kumar
As record number of seafarers and cargo ships are abandoned in war zones, crew members stranded in a Black Sea port have shared their dramatic testimony with the GuardianOn the night of 16 July last year, Gaurav Joshi, one of the crew working on a carg…
As one of the last female-run stations in the country is silenced, a former broadcaster gives an inside view of the crackdown on women working in the mediaWhen the Taliban began marching towards cities across Afghanistan in the summer of 2021, Alia*, a…
Regime suspends polio campaign across Afghanistan over security concerns and women’s role in vaccination driveAfghanistan is at risk of a polio outbreak, health officials have warned, after the Taliban suspended the vaccination campaign over security f…
Global governments should engage with the Taliban because some in the regime support reversing the ban, says Rangina HamidiThere are many Taliban officials who would support reversing the ban on schooling for girls in Afghanistan, according to the coun…
Musicians and artists are living in a state of terror. Can the country’s identity as a ‘crossroads of cultures’ survive a policy of strict repression?When the Taliban moved closer to Kabul in the early days of August 2021, a series of unusual advertise…
Two years on, people who worked in the country’s now-defunct legal system remain in grave danger from reprisals for their workHungry, hunted, terrified: unending plight of the Afghan women who served in military and policeNearly 4,000 prosecutors and l…
Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, one-third of journalists have left, while those who remain live with threats, attacks, unlawful detention and extortionMortaza Behboudi, an Afghan-French journalist, had been drawn back to Afghanistan, which he …
We are still trying to find ways to get visas – writing letters, appealing to governments – but the options are running outIt was past midnight on 9 August 2021, and I was immersed in writing when my phone pinged: a message from a contact at the Indi…
Gulafroz Ebtekar, a former top CID officer in Kabul, tells how she escaped the Taliban and is now working in exile to restore justice for the women of her homelandWhen the Taliban entered Kabul on the morning of 15 August last year, Gulafroz Ebtekar re…
Human Rights Watch reports cases of mob attacks, gang-rape and death threats, with LGBTQ+ people living in fear and unable to fleeThe lives of LGBTQ+ people in Afghanistan have “dramatically worsened” under Taliban rule, according to a new survey, whic…
Prof Faizullah Jalal, an outspoken critic of Afghanistan’s ruling group, was arrested for alleged remarks on social mediaSupporters of a prominent university professor, and one of Afghanistan’s most vocal critics of the Taliban, are calling for his rel…
The Taliban has whitewashed Kabul’s political murals – and those who created them have fled into exileNegina Azimi felt shock and fear like never before when she heard that Taliban fighters had entered Kabul on 15 August. As an outspoken female artist…
Zahra Joya started Rukhshana Media so Afghan women could tell their stories in their own words. Now she is battling to keep it going as long as she canDespite years of development, investment and progress in the Afghan media industry, 28-year-old Zahra…
Rise in cases feared as murders halt campaigns and leave many women too afraid to workGul Meena Hotak was on her regular rounds, going door-to-door giving polio vaccinations in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, when she heard gunshots.The 22-year-o…
Saba Sahar, who returned fire while protecting her daughter, survived one of a wave of recent assassination attempts that have killed six policewomenIt was just after 7am when the car carrying Colonel Saba Sahar, one of Afghanistan’s most senior female…