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Ruchi Kumar

Ruchi Kumar is a journalist based in Kabul, Afghanistan

March 2024

  • Afghan burqa-clad women walk along a road in Kandahar

    Rights and freedom
    Taliban edict to resume stoning women to death met with horror

    Afghan regime’s return to public stoning and flogging is because there is ‘no one to hold them accountable’ for abuses, say activists

November 2023

  • A group of school girls raise their hands with school books on their laps

    Rights and freedom
    Taliban could be convinced to open girls’ schools, says Afghanistan ex-education minister

    Global governments should engage with the Taliban because some in the regime support reversing the ban, says Rangina Hamidi

August 2023

  • Man with his back to camera being hugged among a crowd of friends and relatives during an emotional farewell

    Rights and freedom
    When the music stops: how the Taliban’s fear of art is killing Afghan culture

  • A group of Afghan women prosecutors stand on a rooftop overlooking Islamabad, Pakistan

    Rights and freedom
    Thousands of Afghan judges and legal staff remain at risk post-Taliban takeover

July 2023

  • Katalin Novák speaks at the opening of the Women Deliver conference in Kigali, Rwanda, on Monday.

    Rights and freedom
    ‘Gut-churning’: anger as Hungarian president addresses major women’s rights conference

    Katalin Novák, an anti-abortionist and promoter of pro-natalist policies, spoke at the opening of the Women Deliver conference in Rwanda

May 2023

  • Two journalists show wounds sustained at the hands of the Taliban in 2021.

    Rights and freedom
    ‘We can’t remain silent’: journalists refuse to give up despite Taliban terror

    Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, one-third of journalists have left, while those who remain live with threats, attacks, unlawful detention and extortion

March 2023

  • Matiullah Wesa, the president of Pen Path, teaches girls in Afghanistan.

    Rights and freedom
    Founder of Afghan girls’ school project arrested in Kabul

  • Ayesha Bashir, right, in a Karachi cell with her five-year-old daughter before a deportation hearing this week. Bashir says she has been held in detention for three months.

    Rights and freedom
    Pakistan crackdown on Afghan refugees leaves ‘four dead’ and thousands in cells

February 2023

  • Girls in a secret school at an undisclosed location in Afghanistan. Hundreds of thousands of girls and young women are living in fear and repression since the Taliban takeover.

    Rights and freedom
    Farzana survived rape, addiction and losing her children. Then the Taliban came – now she is missing

    Exiled Afghan psychologist Mariam is desperately trying to trace 15 domestic abuse survivors she was helping before the Taliban seized control

September 2022

  • Soldier, in profile, looks out across valley with mountains in the distance

    Rights and freedom
    Tajikistan ‘rounding up and deporting Afghan refugees’

    UN refugee agency urges authorities to end forced deportations as families say they are too scared to leave their homes

August 2022

  • Afghans prepare to to be evacuated aboard a Qatari transport plane, at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, August, 18, 2021. Qatar played an out-sized role in U.S. efforts to evacuate tens of thousands of people from Afghanistan. Now the tiny Gulf Arab state is being asked to help shape what is next for Afghanistan because of its ties with both Washington and the Taliban insurgents now in charge in Kabul. (Qatar Government Communications Office via AP)

    Women report Afghanistan
    I have spent a year helping people flee the Taliban: failure is traumatic, success bittersweet

    Ruchi Kumar
  • Afghan women from the 'group of six' speaking at the UN headquarters in October 2021, from left to right: Asila Wardak, Fawzia Koofi, Anisa Shaheed and Naheed Farid

    Rights and freedom
    ‘The Taliban don’t know how to govern’: the Afghan women shaping global policy from exile

May 2022

  • Afghan Main

    Rights and freedom
    ‘We are worse off’: Afghanistan further impoverished as women vanish from workforce

    From civil servants, teachers and doctors to journalists and business owners, loss of female workers under the Taliban has already cost the economy $1bn

April 2022

  • Afghan policewoman Gulafroz Ebtekar pictured in uniform among Afghanistan flags

    Rights and freedom
    ‘We had 4,000 policewomen in Afghanistan. Let them get back to work’

    Gulafroz Ebtekar, a former top CID officer in Kabul, tells how she escaped the Taliban and is now working in exile to restore justice for the women of her homeland

March 2022

  • School girl study at a home in Kandahar.

    Rights and freedom
    Taliban U-turn over Afghan girls’ education reveals deep leadership divisions

    Rural opposition and school uniform issues blamed for school closures but confusion reveals differences in vision for Afghanistan’s future

January 2022

  • solidarity protest action to support Afghan women.

    Rights and freedom
    Lives of LGBTQ+ Afghans ‘dramatically worse’ under Taliban rule, finds survey

    Human Rights Watch reports cases of mob attacks, gang-rape and death threats, with LGBTQ+ people living in fear and unable to flee
  • Afghan women chant slogans and hold banners during a women's rights protest in Kabul on Sunday.

    Taliban launch raids on homes of Afghan women’s rights activists

    Campaigners arrested by armed men days after anti-hijab protest in Kabul, with beatings reported
  • AFGHANISTAN-POLITICS-ARREST<br>A man uses his mobile phone to read news reporting on the arrest of a prominent Afghan university professor Professor Faizullah Jalal, who openly criticised the Taliban's hardline regime, in Kabul on January 9, 2022. - Professor Faizullah Jalal has made several appearances on television talk shows since the previous US-backed government was ousted in August, blaming the Taliban for the worsening financial crisis and criticising them for ruling by force. (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP) (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)

    Rights and freedom
    Calls for release of Kabul University professor detained by Taliban

    Prof Faizullah Jalal, an outspoken critic of Afghanistan’s ruling group, was arrested for alleged remarks on social media

October 2021

  • A mural by the female graffiti artist Shamsia Hassani, who left Kabul after the Taliban takeover.

    Rights and freedom
    ‘We planted a seed’: the Afghan artists who painted for freedom

    The Taliban has whitewashed Kabul’s political murals – and those who created them have fled into exile

September 2021

  • Morteza Samadi

    Rights and freedom
    Fears grow for photojournalist arrested by Taliban as executions resume

    Taliban deny Morteza Samadi, 21, has been sentenced to death but family concerned for his safety after he was detained while covering women’s protests in Herat
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