“You just sit and walk and look at the world and the city from the windows of your house,” one woman said of what life was like under Taliban rule
Source: CBS News: Afghan women fear their hard-won freedom is in jeopardy as Taliban talks resume
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Our collective visual vocabulary of crisis is neither accidental nor neutral. It has been shaped by decades of coverage, often from a narrow, Western lens – a lens that has taught audiences what suffering is supposed to look like. That vocabulary now distorts our understanding of crises and undermines the dignity and agency of those living through them.
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