- Imagine, for one second, achieving new milestones, engaging in relevant conversations with peers, and even learning a new language. And then one day, all of that is instantly stripped away. You are now fearful at every corner you turn, scared someone may be right behind you, as you make the life-threatening journey to the dark […]
- The European Union has long positioned itself as a global champion of human rights, democracy, gender equality, and the rule of law. These principles have shaped its foreign policy and underpinned its criticism of governments and non-state actors that violate fundamental freedoms. Reports that the EU recently invited Taliban representatives to Brussels and issued visas […]
- “I begged them, my daughter was dying.” These words were a plea from a mother, Zarin Gul, whose pregnant daughter, Nasrin, was suffering excruciating pains that required immediate attention from a health facility. However, on their way to the health center, they were stopped by a Taliban checkpoint due to a lack of a male […]
- On June 6 and 7, officials from the Taliban’s Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, commonly known as the morality police, detained dozens of women in western Afghanistan’s Herat Province for alleged dress code violations. Witnesses and residents reported that many of the women arrested were already fully covered and complied […]
- A new report released by the Tufts University’s Feinstein International Center is intensifying calls for international accountability, concluding that the Taliban’s governance in Afghanistan is in direct and systematic violation of global legal obligations to protect women and girls. The report, Legal Commitments, Systemic Violations: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Taliban and CEDAW Obligations in […]
- A newly published Taliban family law regulation is further institutionalizing discrimination and oppression against Afghan women and girls by codifying unequal rights in marriage, divorce, and family matters. The law also effectively removes Afghanistan’s previous minimum marriage age for girls by linking eligibility for marriage to puberty, which can begin as early as age nine. […]
- Afghan refugees who have helped U.S. officials living at a former U.S. military base in Qatar have been left with an incredibly difficult decision: go back to Afghanistan under the Taliban or relocate to the Democratic Republic of Congo. The New York Times reported that the Trump Administration has been participating in talks with the […]
- UN experts are calling for the immediate reversal of Taliban policies that prevent Afghan women from working at or even entering United Nations offices as they warn that the ban is not only a violation of women’s rights but is also worsening Afghanistan’s humanitarian crisis. According to UN experts, Afghan women, including UN staff, contractors, […]
- Afghanistan is being pulled deeper into crisis, not by a single event but by a convergence of decisions and conflicts that continue to narrow the space for survival and accountability. In recent weeks, developments at the United Nations, renewed cross-border violence with Pakistan, and escalating conflict across the Middle East have combined to place extraordinary […]
- A new report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, warns that Taliban policies targeting women and girls are pushing the country toward a worsening health and human rights crisis. The report presented to the United Nations Human Rights Council focuses on the right to health and […]
