How the Taliban Hunt Women in Afghanistan

5 Years After Taliban Takeover, Women & Girls in Afghanistan Have Disappeared from Public Life

Restrictions on women’s rights have expanded in Afghanistan since U.S. forces withdrew from the country five years ago, ceding control to the Taliban in the process. Afghan women are banned from attending schools and gyms, books written by women are removed from libraries, doctors and nurses are unable to practice, and child marriage rates have increased. Wives have been rendered legally subordinate to their husbands, and women are required to stay silent in public. “Women and girls of

Afghanistan: Taliban classify women as “living beings”. How generous of them.

Ah, Afghanistan, so easily forgotten, so many reasons, so many promises. So much bullshit. We gave slaves a glimpse of freedom, then slammed the cell doors shut.

How the Taliban Hunt Women in Afghanistan

FIVE years after the Taliban returned to power, Fawzia Koofi, the former Deputy Speaker of the Afghan Parliament, denounces what she describes as “gender apartheid.” Despite bans, terror, and the systematic erasure of women from society, Afghan women continue to resist through underground schools and online solidarity networks. Koofi was also a member of the […]