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Review of My Beautiful Sisters: A Story of Courage, Hope and the Afghan Women’s Football Team by Khalida Popal John Murray Press (Hachette India) Pages: ix + 213; Price: Rs 699
How do you rate a society that treats women so shabbily that they are branded as whores and prostitutes simply for (…)
The need for women to be accompanied by a man in public is blocking access to healthcare and contributing to soaring mortality rates, say experts
A female health worker, accompanied by her mahram or male chaperone, arrives at work in a snowstorm in the province of Zabul, south Afghanistan. (…)
In early September 2023, fewer than 300 people per day crossed the official border points from Pakistan to enter Afghanistan. But since the Government of Pakistan decreed on 15 September that undocumented immigrants would be required to leave the country—a policy that applies to an estimated 1.3 (…)
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 (…)
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 voices (…)
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 (…)
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 and (…)
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 same (…)
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 at (…)
The Taliban last week announced that all male students and male teachers should be present in schools from Saturday, September 18. The statement of the Education Ministry did not mention girls’ education.
In response to the announcement, a Twitter user under the name of “From the Afghan women” (…)
War hawks constantly cite women’s liberation in support of the US occupation of Afghanistan. That’s transparent hypocrisy: during the Cold War, the US supported patriarchal fundamentalists against a party dedicated to advancing the cause of Afghan women.
The entire US political class is (…)
Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan on August 15, they have tried to display a moderate face. But, as each day passes, their true nature surfaces.
Afghanistan. Women protesting the Taliban on September 8. Photo supplied.
The Taliban claim to have changed in their point of view towards (…)
Spokesman says men ‘mistreated the women and a reporter’ but tells Afghans it is ‘not a time for protest’.
The Taliban have arrested four men who hit protesters and held journalists at gunpoint to break up a women’s rights’ demonstration in Kabul on Saturday, the spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid (…)
There are signs of a return to something worryingly close to the hardline restrictions of the past across Afghan life.
When Taliban fighters moved into Herat city in western Afghanistan last month, one thing mattered more to some of them than the battle itself. As gunmen faced off around the (…)
The takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban has undoubtedly put women’s lives in danger and threatened their human rights in new ways. But if we want to help, we need to first understand that Afghan women’s lives were challenging long before the takeover.
The threat of violence has long been a (…)
Ms. Yousafzai, who survived a Taliban assassination attempt, is an activist for girls’ education and the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
In the past two decades, millions of Afghan women and girls received an education. Now the future they were promised is dangerously close to (…)
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