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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: Treating severe acute malnutrition and saving young lives in Herat, Afghanistan
WHO-supported IPD-SAM centre at Guzara District Hospital, Herat Province. Photo credit WHO Afghanistan21 October 2026, Kabul, Afghanistan – In western Afghanistan, the World Health Organization ...
News Afghanistan » Herat » Life: Five years under the Taliban: Meduza reports from Afghanistan, where a war on drugs and greater security have come with mass poverty, unemployment, and the loss of women’s rights
In August 2021, after the withdrawal of U.S. troops, the Taliban, an armed religious and political movement, seized power in Afghanistan. Active fighting has since ended, but life has hardly improved ...
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: ‘We Have Stitched Our Hearts to Hope’: The Unseen Resistance of Afghan Women Under Taliban Rule
Afghan women say that they respond to Taliban oppression in vastly different ways depending on their social, cultural, and personal contexts.
News Afghanistan » Herat » Life: Afghan women defy Taliban to educate girls in secret schools
It’s been nearly five years since the Taliban banned education for girls older than 12 in Afghanistan. Every day seems to bring a new law limiting them, but Afghan women are pushing back. Special ...
News Afghanistan » Herat » Life: Afghan Women Face Yet Another Restriction as Taliban Crackdown Reportedly Extends Beyond Real Life
Women in Afghanistan's Herat province say they were detained over Instagram posts and required to stop using social media, adding to wide-ranging Taliban restrictions on women.
News Afghanistan » Herat » Life: Censored Fish, Tinfoil Mannequins: How The Taliban Redacts Life In Afghanistan
New photos from Afghanistan show a Taliban law banning images of people and animals is now being enforced across most of the country, resulting in seafood censored from menus, blacked-out museum ...
News Afghanistan » Herat » Life: Spice of life - Saffron harvest offers jobs, opportunity in Afghanistan
HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - It is early morning in a saffron field outside the western Afghan city of Herat and dozens of women are harvesting the delicate purple flowers, working quickly to gather ...