Resisting the Taliban’s New Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan
With the arrival of the Taliban, women were removed from society. Hoda Khamosh Journalist featured on 2022 TIME100 list Since the fall...
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The deepening chill of Afghanistan’s second Taliban winter
Washing clothes in the snow, heating homes with scavenged trash, families struggle to survive In a yard ankle-deep with mud and snowy...
Afghanistan: Taliban restrictions on women and girls amount to persecution
The European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) has published an updated joint assessment of the situation in Afghanistan. In newly published...
Afghanistan professor on girls' education: 'Men must stand up for women'
"I call on fathers to take the hands of their daughters and walk them to school, even if the gates are shut." Professor Ismail Mashal,...
Taliban militias break into the homes of female university students seeking brides
Fawzia, a 17-year-old medical student, has been in hiding in Kabul for a month and believes the fundamentalists used her enrollment...
UN, Taliban Officials Meet To Discuss Women’s Rights in Afghanistan
Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This...
The Taliban in Afghanistan
The Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021, twenty years after their ouster by U.S. troops. Under their harsh rule, they have...
Afghan women are flocking to virtual learning amid Taliban’s university ban
Afghan women are finding avenues to pursue their education as the Taliban continues to crack down on women’s rights, recently banning...
Can the Taliban’s Brazen Assault on Afghan Women Be Stopped?
The audacity of the Taliban’s latest bans on women in public life brings two new factors into play, which may over time lead to change....
How the Taliban’s ban on women aid workers could deepen Afghanistan’s crisis
Another edict that removes women from public life and makes it harder for the country’s most vulnerable to get help. Saara, who works for...
