Articles & Analysis

By: UN Women With each new restriction, women are being pushed further out of public life – and closer to being erased from it altogether. UN Women has compiled 10 key facts which explain the most s...

Author: Heather Barr/georgetown The escalating women’s rights crisis in Afghanistan demonstrates a gap in international legal protections of the rights of women and girls. The international communit...

Author: Eng.Rahmatullah Mohsini Rahmatullah Mohsini, a graduate in Civil Engineering in 2014 from Herat University, was born in the Nahor district of Ghazni province. He currently lives in Islamabad...

Chapter One: A Deepening Darkness – Four Years of Systematic Educational Suppression Imagine a nation where half its population is not just barred from universities and high schools, but even from r...

By: Waheed Payman | Journalist The Taliban has unveiled its so-called National Development Plan. But in a country where women are banned from education and employment, where key institutions lack qu...

The two decades of the Republic (2001–2021) marked a period of social and cultural awakening for Afghan women—years filled with new experiences, hard-won achievements, and significant challenges. Fro...

Afghanistan’s history repeatedly demonstrates that ignoring half of its population leads to disaster. Throughout history, women have either been excluded from major decision-making or included only...

✍️ Sima Samar Former Chairperson, Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission August 15, 2021, marks the beginning of one of the darkest chapters in Afghanistan’s modern history—a period define...

Shukria Barakzai –  Abstract The past four decades in Afghanistan have been compressed histories of war, state-building, abandonment, collapse, occupation, and the return of religious authoritariani...

Homeira Qaderi/ 8am.media Since October 2021, I have been teaching creative writing at the “Golden Needle” Association. In each cycle, we have approximately forty core members registering from with...

The U.S. Department of State, in its latest report, has described the human rights situation in Afghanistan under Taliban rule as severely deteriorated. The report stresses that Taliban decrees and re...

Nasrin Faramarz – University Lecturer and Member of the Leadership Council of the Afghanistan Women’s Justice Movement Introduction Greetings and respect to all the brave women and esteemed compani...