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Malalai Joya achieved international recognition in December 2003 when she bravely denounced the presence of warlords in the meeting of Afghanistan’s Loya Jirga that had been elected to develop a new constitution for the war-torn country. In her autobiography, Raising My Voice, she describes (...)
The Taliban’s two years ruling Afghanistan have taught us ordinary human rights initiatives are insufficient to address gender apartheid. We need resolute collective international action.
The second anniversary of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan is fast approaching. Since then, Afghan (...)
Widows and single women are losing their homes, after being told they can no longer work by the Taliban, and are living on the poverty line.
Jamila*, a widow living in Herat, lost her husband in a suicide attack about eight years ago. She has an 18-year-old daughter who is blind and a (...)
It has been a year since Taliban’s takeover of Kabul after the ignominious fall of Western-backed regime of Ashraf Ghani. The so-called democratic experiment of American imperialism and allied Western countries, built by militarily overthrowing Taliban back in 2001, came to an end after twenty (...)
Editor’s note: To mark the one-year anniversary of the Taliban’s second takeover of Afghanistan, Just Security is publishing a series of essays on the developments of the last year and the prospects for the future of Afghanistan. The series will continue over the coming weeks, and feature (...)
WHILE the issue of recognition of the Afghan Taliban remains pending, a humanitarian crisis is looming: the dilemma of the virtually stateless people of Afghanistan, especially women, is not limited to food or medicine shortages. Their existential crisis actually emanates from the Taliban’s (...)
Taliban forces on Sunday fired pepper spray at a group of women protesters in Afghanistan’s capital demanding rights to work and education, three demonstrators told AFP.
Since seizing control of the country by force in August, the Taliban authorities have imposed creeping restrictions on (...)
IN RECENT MONTHS we have seen the resuscitation of the “saving Afghan women” narrative in media commentaries following the U.S. military withdrawal. As much scholarship has shown ever since the 2001 military intervention, this narrative functions to do two things.
First, it ignores the fact (...)
As an Iranian woman, I understood the fear and oppression facing Afghan women. I had to tell their stories to the world
I crossed the border into Afghanistan from Iran one month after the Taliban seized Kabul. I could no longer handle reading, sharing posts or retweeting news about (...)
When the U.S. left Afghanistan in August it also froze almost all foreign aid to the country.
It has now come to light that the major part of the economy under the U.S. military and its puppet government was completely dependent on that foreign aid.
In other words, the U.S. invasion (...)
The Taliban’s takeover of power after the United States’ brutal twenty-year imperialist occupation is a catastrophe for women not only in Afghanistan but throughout the world.
It is true that world powers often close their eyes to atrocities against women, including most recently the rape (...)
November 16 marked exactly three months of Taliban occupation of Kabul. It’s just not the fall of Kabul, but the fall of a country along with all its achievements of 20 years. Despite US occupation and the Taliban insurgency, Afghanistan was also developping. For some of those outside (...)
Commentary [Il Manifesto]. The only way to save Afghanistan is solidarity of the progressive, democratic and secular forces. If we want an independent, democratic and prosperous Afghanistan in which men and women have equal rights based on democracy, people need strong solidarity to be free (...)
Ever since the Taliban recaptured Afghanistan, the question in much of the Western media has been, “What will happen to the women of Afghanistan?”
Indeed, this is an important concern that merits international attention. The Taliban has already imposed many restrictions on women.
At the (...)
A political tsunami has hit the Graveyard of Empires. Afghanistan’s president fled the country as Taliban advanced on Kabul effectively holding power after it was ousted by the US-led invasion.
The US President Biden confirmed the end of two decades of military presence in Afghanistan. (...)
[Jeddojehad (Struggle), a left-wing, online Urdu-language daily in Pakistan, is posting reports from Kabul. Filed by Yasmeen Afghan (not the author’s real name), these reports depict the picture from inside Kabul and cover what is often ignored in the mainstream media. For a wider (...)
Two days before the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, I was gearing up to interview one of the Afghanistan’s most prominent women’s activists. I have long admired Selay Ghaffar for her role in not only promoting gender equality and social justice policies, but also for her resolute opposition to (...)
Nooruddin Turabi, in charge of Afghan prisons, says executions and removal of hands will restart, but possibly not in public
The Taliban will resume executions and the amputation of hands for criminals they convict, in a return to their harsh version of Islamic justice.
According to a (...)
Protest in solidarity with Afghan women in New York City on September 25.
It is difficult to catch up with old friends these days, whether it’s meeting them or calling them up. Life in Kabul, as well as outside of Kabul, is on a stand still since the Taliban occupation.
Women largely stay (...)
That Taliban 2.0 is a reformed version of its earlier avatar is a myth, as the experience of the past one month has shown that it is a hardline regime both ideologically and politically.
It took just over a month for the Taliban to draw a damning indictment from international human rights (...)
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