The Deafening Silence of Afghan Women Echoes in Vienna’s Halls of Power
By Ali Ahmad The grand marble halls of Vienna’s Rathaus (City Hall) have hosted countless diplomatic receptions, but none quite...
By Ali Ahmad The grand marble halls of Vienna’s Rathaus (City Hall) have hosted countless diplomatic receptions, but none quite...
ADN In the grand halls of Vienna’s City Hall, far from home, Palwasha Kakar — former Deputy Minister for Women’s...
ADN On a spring evening inside Vienna’s stately City Hall (Rathaus), applause rang out as Zahra Hashimi stepped up to...
VIDC By Ali Ahmad ‘Afghanistan is the only country in the world where girls are completely banned from education beyond...
By Nadia Ghulam On the shifting horizon of Afghanistan—a country where many women and girls today live in despair, stripped...
By Nadia Ghula It has been four long years since Afghan girls were forced out of their classrooms. Four years...
By Nazila Jamshidi Since the Taliban assumed power in 2021, Afghan women and girls have faced increasingly severe restrictions on...
By T. T. Sh. On the second of October 2021, when an Iranian female journalist interviewed Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, he...
By Tahmina Salik The Third Doha Meeting, convened by the United Nations (UN) on June 30, 2024, in Doha, represents...
The following article was written by Hadia* as part of VIDC’s “Life under the Taliban” series, in which women and men from...