Ali Tawakuli is a prominent activist for the rights of Afghanistan’s LGBTQ+ community and the founder of Rainbow Afghanistan. Before the resurgence of the Taliban,

For 11 days, Mohra Barakzay was on a hunger strike to get the world to recognize the gender apartheid in Afghanistan. The 22-year-old Swedish-based queer

After the return of the Taliban to power, women protested Taliban restrictions on women’s education and employment through demonstrations in Afghanistan and around the world.

The LGBTQ+ community in Afghanistan is in crisis. Marginalized under the previous government, it faces humiliation, suppression and outright oppression under the Taliban. Its members

 The refugee situation in Turkey is being politicized: an interview with Zakira Hekmat  Dr. Zakira Hekmat is the founder of the Afghan Refugee Solidarity Association

For more than a decade, Fawzia Wahdat worked as a journalist in Afghanistan. In addition, she spent two years serving as a provincial commissioner of

Zan Times reached out to Zarifa Ghafari for an interview for our fact-checking article, “Who is the real Zarifa Ghafari?” Ms. Ghafari agreed to provide

For more than 10 years, Fereshta Abbasi has investigated and documented human rights violations in Afghanistan. Currently, she is a researcher in the Asia division

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