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The Taliban claim to have changed, but the crackdown has begun for women across the countryIn two months, Parwana estimates she has crossed the threshold of her home perhaps four times. She used to leave early in the morning, for work that supported he…
Read MoreThe most vulnerable people will bear the cost of sanctions, as services and the economy collapseWatching Afghanistan’s unfolding trauma, I’ve thought a lot about Mumtaz Ahmed, a young teacher I met a few years ago. Her family fled Kabul during Taliban …
Read MoreA roundup of the coverage of the struggle for human rights and freedoms from Thailand to Texas Continue reading…
Read MoreWith at least four women, including a pregnant mother, targeted and killed by Taliban fighters, female ex-officers feel abandoned by the worldNegar Masumi, a female police officer with 15 years of experience, was determined not to flee when the Taliban…
Read MoreLife for single mothers in Afghanistan has always been marred by stigma and poverty. Now with the Taliban in control, what few protections they had have disappearedThe day after Mazar-i-Sharif, the provincial capital of Balkh province, fell to the Tali…
Read MoreAfter 15 years campaigning, Satya Naresh believes it’s time for government action to stop the custom that causes a woman to die every hour through murder or suicideFor more than a decade, Satya Naresh has been trying to persuade India’s men to stop a w…
Read MoreWhile individual countries try to do what they can for those caught up in the mayhem, international pressure is lackingWhen Beheshta Arghand questioned a Taliban spokesman live on Afghan television two weeks ago, the very fact that he was prepared to a…
Read MoreWomen forced out of jobs despite Taliban promises to allow them to keep working, survey findsFemale journalists in Afghanistan are being forced out of jobs and told to stay at home despite Taliban promises to allow them to keep working and to respect p…
Read MoreAt least 12,000 women are still abducted and forced into marriage every year in Kyrgyzstan. But pressure is growing to finally end the medieval customAisuluu was returning home after spending the afternoon with her aunt in the village of At-Bashy, not …
Read MoreMargaret Owen on those most vulnerable to Taliban violence who are now living in terror, Joseph Nhan-O’Reilly on keeping education alive. Plus letters from Barbara English and Sarah MulhollandIt is tragic that many Afghans who worked for Nato armies an…
Read MoreEducators say they fear reversal of hard-won progress as aid workers call for Taliban’s desire for international legitimacy to be used as leverageAfghanistan’s only boarding school for girls has temporarily relocated to Rwanda, its co-founder has said,…
Read MoreNilofar Bayat begins rebuilding her life in Spain after days of fear for her life under Taliban ruleWhen the Taliban entered Kabul, Nilofar Bayat, the captain of Afghanistan’s female national wheelchair basketball team, knew she had to get out.“There w…
Read MoreTwo decades of gains in rights and liberties for the women of Afghanistan hang by a thread as many go into hidingAmerica first, again: Is Biden echoing Trump on Afghanistan?The embassy of Afghanistan occupies a handsome redbrick mansion in a serene and…
Read MoreA few days ago the capital was full of women going about their business. Now, the few that remain walk fast and full of fearFour days after the quick and unexpected invasion of Kabul by the Taliban, the streets of the Afghan capital are almost entirely…
Read MoreAs city after city falls to the Taliban, women fear that the freedoms won since 2001 will be crushedIn a market in Kabul, Aref is doing a booming trade. At first glance, the walls of his shop seem to be curtained in folds of blue fabric. On closer insp…
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