Some may question why terminology matters. What leaders call the situation in Afghanistan won’t instantly change the reality for women there. Even with labeling the Taliban’s actions as a ...
It’s all absolutely absurd. As an activist, when I think about the work I have been doing and what many other Afghan women have been doing, we have a simple wish: Let’s call it a crime at the ...
Countless Afghan women were seen sobbing as a man read out a Taliban decree banning them from medical care and training in a viral video on social media. A user on X posted the clip on December 3 ...
On Nov. 28, 2024, six state parties referred the “Situation in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan” to the International Criminal Court, expressing concern about the severe deterioration of the human ...
Amid a harrowing reality, where an Afghan woman dies every hour from childbirth complications, Pashtana Durrani voices the grim future awaiting them due to the Taliban’s latest education ban. “People ...
The European Union has condemned the ban, while the United Nations chief mission in Afghanistan said it was "extremely concerned about a reported directive" that was preventing women and girls ...
Taliban authorities in Afghanistan are reported to have banned medical schools from admitting female students, removing the last remaining opportunity for women to pursue higher education.