カテゴリー: Taliban
Made under dangerous conditions, this documentary charts how the lives of three women were turned upside down by Afghanistan’s overthrow in 2021Afghan film-maker Sahra Mani, creator of the rape-survivor documentary A Thousand Girls Like Me from 2018, b…
As a former senator, I’ve seen how major parties conspired with the military to manipulate elections and crush opponents. This can’t go onFor most of its history, Pakistan has been ruled by military dictators. Brief democratic intervals were only possi…
Activists hope a change in international law could help to address the intensifying erosion of women and girls’ rights in AfghanistanRead more: Afghan exiles on the Taliban’s gender apartheidOver the past three years, the world has watched in horror as…
What women face in Afghanistan is a crime against humanity, say activists pushing for recognition by UN Explainer: What is gender apartheid – and can anything be done to stop it?When Sima Samar and other Afghan women came up with the term “gender apart…
Afghanistan would have six months to provide response before ICJ would hold hearingThe Taliban are to be taken to the international court of justice for gender discrimination by Canada, Australia, Germany and the Netherlands in a groundbreaking move.Th…
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…
Always prone to natural disasters, the country’s plight has worsened, and not only because of the climate crisisOn 10 May 2024, Haroon Nafas was in his family’s guesthouse in Baghlan, north Afghanistan, spending time with friends who had come to stay. …
‘We will never stop fighting’: why Afghan women have risked their lives to attend a summit in Tirana
A conference in the Albanian capital aims to agree how women want the international community to react to the Taliban’s assault on their rights – and fight the erasure of their voicesIn the garden of a hotel on the outskirts of Tirana, Albania, a group…
Despite the regime withdrawing even the most basic human rights of women and girls, liberal democracies have failed to take action‘So pervasive is the Taliban’s institutionalised gender oppression, and so slender are the spaces in which women and girls…
Simon Diggins on offering resettlement and educational opportunities to those living under the Taliban regime and Margaret Owen on connecting schoolgirls in Britain and KabulYour harrowing report on the worsening oppression of women in Afghanistan remi…
Women push back at law stating they must not sing or read aloud in public by posting videos of themselves singingAfghan women, both inside and outside the country, have posted videos of themselves singing in protest against the Taliban’s laws banning w…
After the fall of the Taliban, more than 21,000 Afghan evacuees submitted asylum applications; 3,100 were able to extend their temporary protected status through May 2025Almost three years after Esmatullah Sultani rushed to Kabul’s international airpor…
New vice and virtue restrictions offer ‘a distressing vision of Afghanistan’s future’, says UNNew Taliban laws that prohibit women from speaking or showing their faces outside their homes have been condemned by the UN and met with horror by human right…
Women have been stripped of their freedom, dignity and livelihoods. The international community must heed their demandsWomen barely feature in Hollywoodgate, the chilling and remarkable documentary on the Taliban currently showing in selected cinemas. …