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Continuation of Civil Protests in Badakhshan Province 15 May 2024

Continuation of Civil Protests in Badakhshan Province Continuation of Civil Protests in Badakhshan Province

Deprivation of Girls from Education, 961 Days Have Passed Since Girls Have Not Been Attending School 09 May 2024

Deprivation of Girls from Education, 961 Days Have Passed Since Girls Have Not Been Attending School Deprivation of Girls from Education, 961 Days Have Passed Since Girls Have Not Been Attending School

Fawzia Koofi to Speak at Nobel Peace Summit 08 May 2024

Fawzia Koofi to Speak at Nobel Peace Summit Fawzia Koofi to Speak at Nobel Peace Summit

After Afghanistan, the teaching of male teachers in Iranian girls’ schools was also banned 27 Jun 2022

After Afghanistan, the teaching of male teachers in Iranian girls’ schools was also banned

Iranian media quoted the Iranian Ministry of Education as saying that male teachers were no longer allowed to teach in Iranian girls’ schools. Mohammad Mahdi Kazemi, an official of the Ministry of Education of Iran, said about the ban on teaching male teachers in girls ‘secondary schools: “We sent a letter on May 19 this […]

From family oppositions and suicide attempts to standing up against forced marriage 21 Feb 2022

From family oppositions and suicide attempts to standing up against forced marriage

One cold winter day, we were sitting by the window in the sun, sipping freshly brewed cardamom black tea. With a deep look and an energetic smile, she started talking to me and wanted to tell everything that has happened to her so far. Her name is Fatima, but everyone calls her Faati. A girl […]

Should we re-brand virginity? 23 Sep 2021

Should we re-brand virginity?

the term ‘virginity’ outdated – or even obsolete? Some experts argue we need a workable alternative to discuss our early sexual experiences. Feminists note virginity traditionally frames female sexuality as a treasure, gift or memento to be ‘given’ by women, ‘taken’ from them or simply ‘lost’. Sex educators note traditional narratives around virginity often fall […]

Girls excluded as Afghan secondary schools reopen 18 Sep 2021

Girls excluded as Afghan secondary schools reopen

The Taliban have excluded girls from Afghan secondary schools after they ordered only boys and male teachers to return to the classroom. A statement from the Islamist group saying secondary classes would resume made no mention of girls or women. One Afghan schoolgirl told the BBC she was devastated. “Everything looks very dark,” she said. […]

My family is starving, I have to sell my daughter 09 Sep 2021

My family is starving, I have to sell my daughter

Few items of Afghan lives are left unsold in Jada-e Maiwand. So fast is the rush to sell and flee or, more simply, to sell and survive amid the plug-hole gurgle of the country’s diminishing economy, that the heaving bazaar of personal belongings has spilled from its usual confines along the famed thoroughfare in the […]

A new order begins under the Taliban’s governance 09 Sep 2021

A new order begins under the Taliban’s governance

The phrases have tripped off the tongues of the Taliban for quite some time. “We’re working to establish an inclusive government that represents all the people of Afghanistan,” promised Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar when he recently arrived in Kabul to start talks aimed at forming a leadership to move the movement from guns […]

Afghanistan: Shukria Barakzai’s whispered voice notes and dramatic escape 28 Aug 2021

Afghanistan: Shukria Barakzai’s whispered voice notes and dramatic escape

For Shukria Barakzai, 15 August seemed, at first, an unremarkable Sunday morning. A prominent journalist and politician, a former member of the Afghan parliament and ambassador to Norway, she was a frequent traveller. She already had a few bags packed, as she was due to fly to Turkey later that day for a brief trip. […]

A Historical Timeline of Afghanistan 27 Aug 2021

A Historical Timeline of Afghanistan

The land that is now Afghanistan has a long history of domination by foreign conquerors and strife among internally warring factions. At the gateway between Asia and Europe, this land was conquered by Darius I of Babylonia circa 500 B.C., and Alexander the Great of Macedonia in 329 B.C., among others. Mahmud of Ghazni, an 11th century conqueror […]

Taliban tell Afghan women to stay home from work because soldiers are ‘not trained’ to respect them 25 Aug 2021

Taliban tell Afghan women to stay home from work because soldiers are ‘not trained’ to respect them

Fear is mounting for women and girls in Afghanistan after the Taliban told working women to stay at home, admitting they were not safe in the hands of the militant group’s soldiers. Taliban spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid said at a news conference on Tuesday that women should not go to work for their own safety, undermining the group’s […]

Afghanistan: Taliban tell working women to stay at home 25 Aug 2021

Afghanistan: Taliban tell working women to stay at home

Working women in Afghanistan must stay at home until proper systems are in place to ensure their safety, a Taliban spokesman has told reporters. “It’s a very temporary procedure,” spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said. The Taliban, which enforced a strict version of Islamic law when they ran Afghanistan before 2001, retook full control of the country […]


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