In early January, Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada quietly enacted the expansive “Criminal Procedure Code for Courts,” which effectively turns violence into everyday rule, patriarchy into official policy, and ideology into enforceable law.
A clandestine group of journalists are telling women’s stories from inside Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
A recent decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals will make things more difficult for women making claims of gender-based persecution.
For over 20 years, women have suffered under the rule of the Taliban.
The family of a slain Afghan journalist has founded an organization to provide resources and refuge to reporters still working in the country.
The recent earthquakes in western Afghanistan and ongoing aftershocks have been devastating.
The effects of a series of earthquakes measuring a 6.3 magnitude that hit Afghanistan in early October have been devastating.
The Taliban's decrees over the past two years have resulted in the severe marginalization of women and girls in all aspects of Afghan society, which they exploit to gain attention on the global stage.
The more I grow intellectually, the more I mourn the loss of young Afghan girls’ potential.
Since the Taliban seized control of Kabul in August 2021, the rights and freedoms of Afghans have been violated.
Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have banned female students from universities in the latest edict cracking down on women’s rights and freedoms, sparking widespread despair and protest in the country.
Afghan-born Meena Asadi has had to upend her life several times to survive.
Recent crackdowns have forced women activists to sometimes operate covertly, but they are adamant they will never stop raising their voices.
At the end of March, the Taliban reversed its decision to open up education to girls above the sixth grade. Students reacted to the news with devastation.
Afghan women-led resistance efforts are the key to preventing Taliban oppression.
Given entrenched cultural norms, the U.S. and the international community should demand that the new Taliban regime uphold the basic rights of Afghan women as defined by the Afghan constitution.