“I began fight for the right to education from inside my home”: Interview with Rahil Talash
Rahil Ansari Talash was born in Balkh Province. She studied law and political science and began her professional career as a literacy teacher. Starting in 2014, she worked in the private banking sector and then,…
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Reports
Child labourers are being rounded up, beaten, and imprisoned by the Taliban
Haron was five years old when he began working on the streets of Kabul. Now 11, he sells socks from a woven basket and carries a small scale so people…
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Afghan women: The largest imprisoned population in the world
This year marks the fourth International Women’s Day in which the Taliban have imprisoned Afghan women and girls inside their…
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The world’s moral failure to prevent violence against Afghan women
As the world marks November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Afghan women have endured the worst forms of violence under the Taliban regime…
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Interviews
‘I write because acceptance is impossible’: Farida Faryad on memory, violence, and women’s voices
Farida Faryad was born in 1992 in Kabul and later moved to Jaghori district of Ghazni province, where she completed her primary and secondary education in 2011. In 2015, she…
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Narrative
The night 400 Afghan families were stormed, beaten, and uprooted in Islamabad
The attack occurred at precisely 1:35 a.m. on the night of November 25. Every night, 50 men from the families took turns patrolling around the tents in Argentina Park, Islamabad,…
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Arts & Culture
A life as wide as the courtyard: A review of ‘Let Me Write to You’
The story Let Me Write to You by Nahid Mehregan takes place in the city of Herat during the first Taliban rule. The novel narrates the lives of several women…
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