Afghanistan News » Herat News Afghanistan » Herat » Life: ‘One day the Taliban will need women to be educated’: three sisters on being forced back to Afghanistan
Shallah, Fatimah and Maahi are among hundreds of thousands of Afghan women and girls deported from Iran and Pakistan in the past year to a life of severe restrictions ...
News Afghanistan » Herat » Life: What Life in Afghanistan Looks Like Five Years After the U.S. Withdrawal
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News Afghanistan » Herat » Life: Women detained in Afghanistan's Herat in clothing crackdown
Afghan residents in the western city of Herat have told AFP of witnessing multiple women detained by the Taliban government's morality police, in a crackdown over clothing which has drawn criticism ...
News Afghanistan » Herat » Life: 5 Years After Taliban Takeover, Women & Girls In Afghanistan Have Disappeared From Public Life
In Afghanistan, this month marks five years since the Taliban returned to power and the U.S. withdrew forces. Since retaking control in August 2021, the Taliban have stripped away the rights of women ...
News Afghanistan » Herat » Life: The Herat arrests are a defining moment of Taliban repression in Afghanistan
Since August 2021, the systematic dismantling of women’s rights in Afghanistan has unfolded through successive decrees that have banned girls from secondary education and universities, excluded women ...
News Afghanistan » Herat » Life: Influencers are travelling to Afghanistan 25 years on from 9/11
In a video mocking those who claim Afghanistan is too dangerous to visit, Polish travel influencer Izabela dangles her legs over the edge of a cliff and lets her hair blow in the wind, showing off the ...
News Afghanistan » Herat » Life: Feature: Home to face a brave new world
HERAT, Afghanistan (UNHCR) - Mohammad stands outside his textile shop in Herat, western Afghanistan, smiling as he watches his countrymen retrace the steps he once took. Like them, he had sought ...
News Afghanistan » Herat » Life: UN experts condemn Afghan morality police crackdown on women in Herat
A group of UN experts on June 11 denounced a crackdown on women in Afghanistan's western city of Herat, saying at least two people had been killed during a protest against the restrictions. Herat's ...
News Afghanistan » Herat » Life: In aid-starved Afghanistan, relief workers fight a forgotten hunger crisis
When Khalid Riaz turns off a dusty, single-lane road into a village in Guzara district, half an hour south of the bustling heart of Herat city in western Afghanistan, he is immediately greeted by a ...
News Afghanistan » Herat » Life: Afghan women's cancer crisis deserves its own response
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) already account for an estimated 43% of all deaths in Afghanistan1 and are projected to exceed 60% by 2030, mainly among women. However, access to cancer care remains ...