Articles & Analysis

Hoda Khamosh, Founder and President of the Women’s Justice Movement (WJM), will participate in the Berlin Freedom Conference 2026 in Germany, joining the panel on the fight against gender apartheid and bringing attention to the rights and experiences of women and girls in Afghanistan.

The International Criminal Court has unsealed arrest warrants for four senior Taliban figures over alleged responsibility for persecution on gender grounds in Afghanistan.

Rokia, 17, reportedly faced forced marriage, family violence and deprivation of food before her death, prompting calls for an independent investigation.

Women’s protest movements, activists and civil society representatives gathered in Pakistan to mark five years of Taliban rule and demand freedom, justice and equality.

Taliban intelligence forces have detained Uzbek poet and teacher Mojdeh Uzbek in Takhar, with sources saying she remains in custody while her husband has been released.

Husaina Jalal and her co-authors have received an international award for their research on how women in Afghanistan continue learning despite restrictions on education.

Shabana Basij-Rasikh, founder of SOLA, has been named among TIME’s 100 Emerging Leaders of 2026 for her efforts to expand education for girls in Afghanistan.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has warned that the human rights situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating further...

A new report by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan documents the systematic expansion and instituti...

By: Hamia Naderi In today’s Afghanistan, violence against women is no longer occurring in the shadows. It has moved into public policy. Over th...

Part Three By Hamia Naderi Historical experience shows that systems of domination—no matter how deeply rooted or complex—have always been met with...

Part Two Author: Hamia Naderi The mythic and symbolic image of women, over time, moved beyond the confines of abstract narratives and became embod...