Month: August 2025

1461 Days of Captivity

Fahimeh Nouri This story is not only mine; it is the voice…

A Cry Through the Wounds: Shahlla Arifi’s Account of the Taliban Prison Aftermath

Introduction: I am Shahlla Arifi, a former employee of the Ministry of…

Global Declaration – August 15, 2025

We, the undersigned—women protesters, civil and political activists, human rights defenders, academics,…

Escalating Repression of Women and Widespread Human Rights Violations in Afghanistan

On Tuesday, August 12, 2025, the U.S. Department of State released its…

Hamia Naderi

Four Years After the Fall: A Story of Life Under the Shadow of Fear

  By Halima Moradi It was one of those mornings when the…

Taliban’s Morality Police: Criminalizing Women’s Freedom

Soraya Mehran Since regaining power in August 2021, the Taliban have institutionalized…

Afghanistan: Four Years in the Taliban’s Iron Cage

By Laila Arman Four years have passed—four years in which each day…

Prison and Flogging: Taliban Whip 16 People in Kabul

The Taliban regime’s Supreme Court announced in a statement today, Tuesday (August…

Women Activist Coordinating Body: The World’s Silence on Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan is Shameful

The the Afghan Women Activist Coordinating Body, coinciding with the fourth anniversary…

United Nations: Do Not Forget the Women and Girls of Afghanistan in the Current Difficult Situation

Stephanie Luz, Head of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme office in…

United Nations: Taliban Are Close to Creating a “Without Women” Society

The United Nations has warned that four years after the Taliban’s return…