Articles & Analysis

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...

Four years have passed since the fall of Kabul and the Taliban’s return to power—a moment that plunged Afghanistan into one of the darkest chapters of its modern history. For Afghan women, these four...

Soraya Mehran Since regaining power in August 2021, the Taliban have institutionalized the suppression of Afghan women through their so-called “Amr bil Ma’ruf wa Nahi an al-Munkar” — a body present...

By Laila Arman Four years have passed—four years in which each day felt like a new cage closing in on the women of Afghanistan. From the very first day Kabul fell, the Taliban came not to rebuild the...

Four years after the Taliban’s return to power on 15 August 2021, Afghanistan has become a prison without windows for millions of women and girls. The hard-won achievements in education, employment,...