Taliban’s gender-based persecutions are likely crimes against humanity:...
Since taking over Afghanistan on August 15, 2021, the Taliban have introduced increasingly draconian measures designed to restrict the lives of girls and women. Resistance to those human rights...
View ArticleThe time to work for a post-Taliban Afghanistan
It has been 730 days since the Taliban took over Afghanistan. In each 24 hours of each day, the people of Afghanistan suffer under an oppressive mullahcracy, which aims to create a dystopia in which...
View ArticleThe Taliban is a regime of gender apartheid!
Several female activists in Cologne, Germany, have embarked on a 12-day hunger strike to advocate for the official recognition of the Taliban’s “gender apartheid” in Afghanistan. They insist that the...
View ArticleThe abduction of women and girls shows Taliban’s determination to build...
The Taliban have escalated its war against the people of Afghanistan. Since January 1, they have begun a campaign of abducting young women and girls in Kabul, Daikundi and Herat provinces and charging...
View ArticleWomen on the front line of resistance to the Taliban
This March 8 – International Women’s Day – marks 932 days since the return of the Taliban to power in Afghanistan, where they have re-established their regime of gender apartheid. In today’s...
View ArticleNowruz ban: Suppressing cultural diversity in Afghanistan
The solar New Year has arrived. Normally, millions in Afghanistan would be celebrating Nowruz but the Taliban have forbidden and prohibited any marking of the spring equinox. Last year, the Taliban...
View ArticleThe Emirate of poverty and misery
In its recent report, the World Bank forecasts a bleak future for Afghanistan’s economy: the country is facing severe economic stagnation due to a lack of domestic growth and the reduction in foreign...
View ArticleTaliban and ‘natural’ disasters
On Friday, floods wreaked havoc across northern Afghanistan. More than 300 people have died and thousands of homes have been destroyed. Untold amounts of agricultural land and livestock have been...
View ArticleThe Taliban’s war on bread, work, and freedom
The Taliban takeover of Kabul in August 2021 was notably met with near-universal mourning and anguish throughout the country. Probably no regime change in the modern history of Afghanistan was met...
View ArticleThe struggle for a secular state is the right response to the Taliban’s new...
The Taliban have introduced a new law that tightens the noose of oppression on the people of Afghanistan, especially women. It gives the Taliban morality police enormous power to invade and scrutinize...
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