Note: Here is the second and final part of our interview with Artemis Akbary, an LGBTQ rights activist and founder of the Afghanistan LGBT Organization.
Afghanistan has long been a dangerous country for its LGBTQ community, which has always been deprived of fundamental human rights. Due to that lack of
Abdullah Ahmadi is a human rights defender, who was awarded the International Peace Prize in South Korea in 2018. For more than two decades he
A Zan Times interview with Tamana Zaryab Paryani Tamana Zaryab Paryani was a founder of the women’s protest movements against the Taliban after the militants
Eight months after the Taliban regained power in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett was appointed to be the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights
Interviewer: Zahra Mousawi Interviewee: Shamsia Hassani Shamsia Hassani embodies everything the Taliban hate. She’s a woman, an artist whose graffiti murals were created on walls
By Zahra Mousawi Zan Times is documenting the experience and analysis of female activists who are resisting the Taliban. For the start of this series,
In Afghanistan, the environment has been one of the most neglected subjects in the eyes of the public and in the media, even though the
There have always been religious minorities living beside the Muslim majority in Afghanistan. Hindus and Sikhs formed the most prominent religious minorities living in Afghanistan’s
Ramita Navai is a British-Iranian documentary producer. She is the producer of a newly released documentary, Afghanistan Undercover, which aired on PBS’s flagship program Frontline on Tuesday, August
