Eight stories of Afghan woman who fled Afghanistan one year ago and are building new lives, from the beaches of Florida to the suburbs of Dublin. These are women who once were full of optimism about the future of their country. They joined Afghanistan’s security...
Event Description: A conversation about the generational effects of endless war on Afghanwomen. Directors of ‘Afghanistan: The Wounded Land’ Mayte Carrasco and Marcel Mettelsiefenwill be joined by Nasrin Nawa, former senior journalist for the BBC in...
Filmmaker Ramita Navai has seen girls and women forced to marry Taliban members or arrested for violating the morality code. Her new PBS Frontline documentary is Afghanistan Undercover. Source: Undercover journalist in Afghanistan finds Taliban are abducting,...
When Heela came out tops in her 9th grade school grades last year, the 14-year-old girl ran home full of excitement, bursting to tell her family the happy news. … Now, almost eight months into the Taliban take-over, which dramatically changed education for...
Taliban has imposed many restrictions on women, but says it has no objection to education for women. Some public universities have opened in Afghanistan for the first time since the Taliban seized power in August, with a trickle of women attending classes. Source:...
