Nilofar Ayoubi With the re-emergence of the Taliban in Afghanistan at midnight on August 15, 2021, some areas underwent major changes. One of these areas is women's lives. The important question now is how does the life of this section…

Hosai Qasmi It has been one and a half years since the Taliban took over Afghanistan. It has been one and a half years since the world, and Afghan politicians failed Afghan women. It has been one and a half years since Afghan women have…

White. Western. Straight. Male. I tick all these boxes. That’s why it was a firm ‘no’ when Hasht e Subh initially reached out to see if I would write something for International Women’s Day in Afghanistan. Hasn’t Afghanistan had…

Neha Nadiry, Women's rights activist Women's Day is being celebrated on March 8, while Afghan women are in Taliban prisons and are excluded from society every day, and the world is silent. The brave women of Afghanistan are at the…

Mina Sharif Those speaking up for the women of Afghanistan are exhausted. Women’s Day does not feel like a celebration that includes the women of Afghanistan or those who support them. Advocates for the women facing gender apartheid in…

Zarlasht Safi Traditionally, eight of March is considered to be the focal day to celebrate gender equality, sisterhood and women empowerment worldwide.  With the arrival of International Women's Day, a stagnated gender equality progress…

Munazza Ebtikar The situation on the rights, or lack thereof, of women is at the forefront of discussions on Afghanistan internationally. In an unprecedented phenomenon of our century, Afghanistan has been rendered a “gender apartheid”…

Kabul - Since the Taliban seized power in August 2021, the women and girls have been isolated and have lost the basic rights of access to education, the rights of working outside the house, and several restrictions are imposed on women…