カテゴリー: Women’s rights and gender equality
At Malalay school in Lashkar Gah, female staff struggle into work despite anxiety over their jobs and half their pupils missingThe walls of the Malalay school, in the centre of Lashkar Gah, Helmand, are pockmarked with bullets from the last weeks of bi…
The respected academic, who has died aged 80, was a leading anti-caste campaigner and fought tirelessly for women’s rightsAt the village of Kasegaon, in India’s rural western region of Maharashtra, huge crowds turned up for the funeral in August of a U…
The US photographer’s image of Sharbat Gula captured the story of a country, its people and refugees across the world. Thirty six years on, another picture tells a similar tale – but also one of hopeOn 1 September, a young Afghan girl stood in line wit…
More than a dozen women staged a protest in Kabul on Sunday, holding up signs calling for the participation of women in public life. The protest came as female government employees in Kabul were told to stay home, with work only allowed for those who c…
Women around the world are sharing pictures of themselves in traditional colourful clothes in a campaign against the new strict dress code for female studentsAfter street demonstrations across major cities in Afghanistan, women have now taken to social…
As a girl in the 1990s, I struggled for an education in underground schools. Afghans face a return to those dark timesWith my phone in hand, I walked up and down the fifth floor of New Broadcasting House, the BBC headquarters in London. It was mid-Augu…
The 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 …
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With 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…
Beheshta Arghand, now in Qatar, says militants don’t accept women as humans and started targeting them soon after takeoverThe Afghan television anchor Beheshta Arghand, who interviewed a Taliban official live on air after the fall of Kabul, has since f…
Educators 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,…
A 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…
The Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban for publicly advocating education for women and girls, has said she is “deeply concerned” about the safety of those in Afghanistan.”We cannot just look at our sc…
In the Afghan capital women stayed home in fear of being beaten by the Taliban for not covering themselvesAfghanistan live news: troops work to restart Kabul flightsThe streets of Kabul were emptied of women on Monday, the first full day of Taliban rul…