カテゴリー: Violence against women and girls
Along with her sister, Mariam was forced to stop practising her sport when the Taliban came to power *Mariam and her sister were on the national boxing team and the youth boxing team. They were ordered by the Taliban to stop practising, and are frighte…
Fahima fears she is being targeted because of the role she had, which included recruiting other women*Fahima was the most senior policewoman in her province. Since the Taliban took over, women who worked in the police force have been targeted for assas…
One woman reportedly taken to hospital after protest calling for right to work and education is stoppedTaliban forces have fired pepper spray at a group of women protesting in Afghanistan’s capital to demand rights to work and education.Since seizing c…
Gul Bano and Karima’s former offices are in the hands of the Taliban – and they fear for their livesGul Bano* and Karima* are activists who ran provincial branches of the ministry of women’s affairs in two different parts of Afghanistan. Their former o…
Women’s rights activists fear for their lives as Afghanistan’s new rulers infiltrate, detain, beat and torture groups of protestersA month ago, Reshmin was busy organising protests against Taliban rule in online groups of hundreds of fellow women’s rig…