The fundamentalists’ latest edict, which prohibits women’s voices from being heard in public, consolidates a gender apartheid. Meanwhile, fear, violence and mental health issues grow in the face of international paralysis
At its annual event in Perpignan, France, the ‘Visa pour l’Image’ festival pays tribute to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Spanish photojournalist with an exhibition that traces his career, marked by passion, risk and empathy
The fundamentalist movement has ratified legislation that toughens social repression a few days after the third anniversary of their return to power following the withdrawal of Western troops
A report concludes that, in 2022 and 2023, attacks against students and teachers increased by 20%, as did the military use of schools. The worst hit places were Palestine, Ukraine, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Myanmar
An internal White House review of the administration’s decisions found that President Joe Biden’s decisions had been ‘severely constrained’ by previous withdrawal agreements negotiated by former President Donald Trump
The artist has focused her work on the beauty of the women of Afghanistan, working around wars and patriarchal restrictions. Since the Taliban returned to power, she has been living as a refugee in Paris. She tells EL PAÍS that the group has created a system of ‘gender apartheid that makes life impossible’
Over the weekend, the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a minibus explosion in western Kabul that killed at least five people
Thousands of people are returning to Afghanistan after the deadline given by the Pakistani authorities to irregular immigrants expires. The situation is aggravating the fragility of a country plunged into the abyss since the return of the Taliban
The Taliban have barred Afghan women from NGO work and sought to push out foreign organizations from the education sector
The global response has been slow after Saturday’s 6.3 magnitude quake. Much of the world is wary of dealing directly with the Taliban-led government and focused on the deadly escalation between Israel and the Palestinians
Taliban restrictions and poverty are causing a mental health crisis, with families feeling increasingly forced to marry off their daughters to make ends meet, or to prevent them being forced to wed extremists
It’s one of the deadliest earthquakes to strike the country in two decades
The educator established a school for girls in Kabul and relocated it to Rwanda in 2021 when the Taliban returned to power
At the conclusion of the nearly three-hour hearing, the judge denied him asylum. Mohammad said he was later shocked to learn that he had waived his right to appeal the decision
The child, whose biological parents died in a U.S. raid, remains in the custody of an American military family, despite the fact that a court declared the adoption void and her relatives are asking for her return
The ban triggered global condemnation and remains the Taliban’s biggest obstacle to gaining recognition as the legitimate rulers of Afghanistan
The director of ‘Hollywoodgate,’ which is being screened at the Venice Film Festival, reached an agreement with the fundamentalists to film inside the Afghan regime for a year
Dorothy Estrada Tanck, co-author of the recent UN report on the situation of women in Afghanistan, trusts that ‘gender apartheid’ will become a crime against humanity and that those who instigate it will be held accountable
Those who left and those who could not flee speak of a country in ruins and decry the world’s apathy towards the humanitarian crisis and the lack of rights, mainly for women, which a UN report describes as ‘gender apartheid’
The fundamentalists will cancel the licenses of these businesses, one of the last strongholds of work and socialization for Afghan women
Over the course of 30 days, the authors captured images that they featured in a magazine-format publication. Their project repositions the audience’s point of view on the country by treating it in an unusually relaxed way
The US military began over the weekend to inform families of the 11 U.S. Marines, the sailor and the soldier killed in the blast at Abbey Gate during the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The World Food Program said it will try to keep delivering life-saving assistance to the country, which is at the highest risk of famine in a quarter of a century
In her documentary – ‘Afghanistan: No Country for Women’ – reporter Ramita Navai tours the country with those who defy the repression of the Taliban, and are detained and tortured as a result
