Articles & Analysis

By: Sadaf Rahnaward  The recent narrative on the decline of reading culture among girls in Badakhshan is more than a local story; it reflects broader social, cultural, and political dynamics in Afgha...

In the realm of global politics, diplomatic images often act as deceptive masks hiding the screams of organized crimes beneath, challenging the conscience of the world. Recent images from Qatari news...

Four years ago, on August 15, 2021, when the Taliban once again seized power in Afghanistan, a dark era cast its shadow over the lives of millions of Afghan women. Girls' schools were closed, universi...

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...