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The difference in the situation of women before and during the Taliban

Hashte Subh
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 of society differ from the past with the rise of the Taliban? What has been the situation of women in the last twenty years and where was it going and how is it…
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Afghan Women facing Annihilation, Showing Resistance

Hashte Subh
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 been facing misogyny of the brutally repressive regime of the Taliban and abandonment by the world. It has been one and a half years since Afghan women have…
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Men can speak up to help Afghan women reclaim their rights

Hashte Subh
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 enough of input from people like me? Haven’t Afghan women already been failed by people like me? What value is there in me writing, in English, from the comfort of…
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Women are models of freedom and social justice!

Hashte Subh
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 forefront of the fight against international terrorism such as the Taliban. The suffering that Afghan women and girls suffer and no women in other lands have ever…
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The advocates for women in Afghanistan

Hashte Subh
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 Afghanistan include men and non Afghans as well, but the group that holds the most personal connection to what is going on, are the women from Afghanistan who…
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Parasitic masculine societies in Afghanistan

Hashte Subh
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 was reported by the World Bank. Yet, this stagnation is of a very alarming level in Afghanistan. We live in the times of permacrisis and gender equality is…
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Women and Resistance from Within

Hashte Subh
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” by scholars and human rights practitioners as the Taliban’s laws and policies are directly targeted to the discrimination of women. As the abysmal state of…
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If You Were Ahmad Massoud, What Would You Do?

Hasht-e-Subh Daily
On August 15th, 2021, Ahmad Massoud, a thirty-year-old man, flew to his birthplace in Panjshir from the Kabul airport, accompanied by a few of the last soldiers and commanders of a collapsing army, in order to keep alive, the hope for an armed and indigenous resistance against the Taliban. This mission seemed impossible due to the amount of regional and global conspiracies. The Taliban, in…
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