According to UNICEF, 2.2 million girls are currently deprived of their right to secondary education, with hundreds of ...
When the Taliban stormed back into power in August 2021, the world watched in horror as the regime instantly began erasing rights. Now, following a “total internet blackout,” according to NetBlocks, ...
Since the Taliban's return in August 2021, Afghan women's basic freedoms have been systematically curtailed, transforming them into privileges. Girls are barred from secondary education and ...
A camp in Khas Kunar, eastern Afghanistan, for people displaced after the earthquake [Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera] A devastating magnitude 6.0 earthquake in eastern Afghanistan on August 31 killed more ...
More than 600 books, many of them written by women, are being purged, based on a contention that they conflict with Sharia principles. By Pranav Baskar The Taliban government is purging books written ...
The dominant narrative on women in Afghanistan, one that appears fairly regularly in international media, is a story of restrictions, denial, and loss of rights. Under the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate, ...
On September 15, 2025, Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada announced the shutdown of fiber-optic internet across Afghanistan. The ban was implemented the next day in northern Afghanistan’s Balkh ...
In January 2022, eight young women from Afghanistan arrived to begin their Middlebury College educations over the frigid ...