Inside the deadly collapse of maternity care in Afghanistan
This report has been published in partnership with OpenDemocracy Nasima’s labour pains began in late December 2025. She was 30 years old, a mother of two, living in a remote village in Ashtarlay district, Daikundi…
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Reports
The EU hosts the Taliban while refugees promised protection are left behind
Munira, a 26-year-old transgender woman, has been living in a Pakistani shelter for LGBTQ+ people since 2023. She says that Germany rejected her asylum case without giving a credible reason…
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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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From sixth grade to marriageability: How the Taliban is redefining girlhood in Afghanistan
As an Afghan scientist and educator, I never imagined that the age at which many girls experience their first menstrual cycle would one day coincide with the age at which…
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Interviews
Living in constant fear: an interview with Kohzad, an LGBTQI+ person in Afghanistan
For many, particularly queer people, women, and girls, living in Afghanistan under Taliban rule is bound up with fear, denial, and silence. It is a place where revealing one’s identity…
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Narrative
‘Without a mahram, we won’t give you a blank sheet of paper’
To buy a ticket for my trip to Kabul, my sister and I went to the office of a bus company. The staff told me that because I did not…
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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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