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Afghanistan

August 2024

  • Film still: Hollywoodgate (2024) directed by Ibrahim Nash'at, co-produced by Odessa Rae

    Hollywoodgate review – chilling fly-on-the-wall glimpse of the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul

  • An Afghan woman with images of armed Taliban soldiers and women queuing

    I live under the oppressive rule of the Taliban. That’s why I am urging the world to engage with them

    Anonymous
  • A woman in a burqa

    Rights and freedom
    Hundreds of cases of femicide recorded in Afghanistan since Taliban takeover are ‘tip of the iceberg’

  • An armed soldier stands in front of a queue of women dress in burqas

    Book of the day
    My Dear Kabul review – inspirational resilience in an Afghan women’s writing group

  • Afghanistan 100m runner Kimia Yousofi sends Olympic message to the Taliban

  • Rights and freedom
    ‘They can stone us and flog us – I will keep using makeup’: why women risk everything in Afghanistan’s secret salons

July 2024

  • Ibrahim Nash'at photographed in London by Phil Fisk for the Observer New Review, July 2024.

    Documentary-maker Ibrahim Nash’at on filming the Taliban: ‘The secret service asked to see my footage. I left the same day’

  • A closeup of Johnny Mercer

    Former MP Johnny Mercer avoids threat of jail over SAS inquiry – for now

  • Ramiz Safa playing his rubab

    ‘The Taliban tried to silence us’: the musicians who escaped to Portugal

  • Afghan women protest to demand their right to education and work in Mazar-e-Sharif last August.

    UK should restore diplomatic presence to help Afghan women, says aid chief

  • Australia-based sprinter ‘honoured’ to represent oppressed women after making Afghan Olympic team

  • The Week in Patriarchy
    It’s no surprise a Newsweek writer panned Taylor Swift for being single and childless

    Arwa Mahdawi

  • ‘Nothing compensates for the stolen years’: the Afghan women rebuilding shattered dreams in Iran

  • Rights and freedom
    Video appears to show gang-rape of Afghan woman in a Taliban jail

  • In a class of their own: three Olympic sportswomen talk about overcoming war, hardship and the Taliban

June 2024

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    The Week in Patriarchy
    Perimenopause finally gets more attention – because there’s something in it for men

    Arwa Mahdawi
    Celebrities have spoken up about their experiences – and Silicon Valley types learned ovaries may hold the key to long life
  • Afghan women in Islamabad hold up posters and placards in a protest demanding to boycott meeting with Taliban in Doha.

    Rights and freedom
    Let Afghan women join the UN talks next week. It’s what the Taliban fear most

    Fawzia Koofi
    The rights of women and girls will be off the table at next week’s UN summit on Afghanistan – it’s an inexplicable moral collapse, says Afghan politician and women’s rights activist Fawzia Koofi

    • Starmer says people would not be sent back to Afghanistan under returns policy

    • Rights and freedom
      Afghan girls accuse Taliban of sexual assault after arrests for ‘bad hijab’

    • African and Asian artists condemn ‘humiliating’ UK and EU visa refusals

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