UK should restore diplomatic presence to help Afghan women, says aid chief
Hugh Bayley says NGOs would also benefit as he releases report on impact of UK programme in Afghanistan
‘Nothing compensates for the stolen years’: the Afghan women rebuilding shattered dreams in Iran
More than 1,000 days after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, women and girls are reluctantly seeking education elsewhere
Rights and freedom
Video appears to show gang-rape of Afghan woman in a Taliban jail
Activist claims she was threatened with release of the footage in order to silence her, amid multiple reports of sexual violence inflicted upon imprisoned Afghan women
June 2024
Rights and freedom
Let Afghan women join the UN talks next week. It’s what the Taliban fear most
Fawzia Koofi
Rights and freedom
Afghan girls accuse Taliban of sexual assault after arrests for ‘bad hijab’
Rights and freedom
Shutting Afghan women out of key UN conference to appease Taliban ‘a betrayal’
Rights and freedom
‘Know how loved you were’: fathers write to their children from the frontline
Rights and freedom
‘Nobody is coming to help us’: Afghan teenage girls on life without school
UN condemns Taliban after it publicly flogs at least 60 people
Kabul: Final Call by Laurie Bristow; The Afghans by Åsne Seierstad reviews – how the west abandoned Afghanistan… and what happened next
May 2024
‘It is worse now’: The Bookseller of Kabul author Åsne Seierstad on returning to Afghanistan 20 years on
Islamic State claims responsibility for deadly tourist attack in Afghanistan
Three Spanish tourists and an Afghan shot dead in Afghanistan attack
World Press Freedom Day 2024
‘They are trying to eradicate us completely’: the passion and pain of telling the stories of Afghan women
The Guardian documentary
Can journalism survive the Taliban? – documentary
The Guardian documentary
Can journalism survive the Taliban?
World Press Freedom Day 2024
The Taliban targeted us, beat us and chased us out. This is how we run our Afghan newspaper from exile
Sakhidad Hatif
April 2024
Rights and freedom
Married at 10, abused and forced to flee without her children: an Afghan woman on life under the Taliban
Delays by Home Office risk return of vulnerable Afghan families to Taliban
March 2024
The Week in Patriarchy
Trump selling Bibles may be desperation – but that shouldn’t cheer anyone up
Arwa Mahdawi
Despite mockery, Trump has sold trading cards, sneakers, cologne and perfume – and manages to get the last laugh