Baloch Women, Afghan Children: Victims of the Same Militarised Mindset
By Kadeem Baloch Across the barren stretches of Balochistan and the war-scarred valleys of eastern Afghanistan, the cries of the...
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Silenced and Disappeared: Baloch Women at Risk
By Rahmatullah Achakzai In the stark, sun-beaten hills of Balochistan, something deeply disturbing is unfolding—away from the cameras, beyond the...
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...
Three Years of Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan: Assessing the Impact and Charting a Path Forward
By Deema Hiram, Enayat Nasir, Rahim Jami, and Zarqa Yaftali The Taliban has completed three years of power in Afghanistan, forcibly...
Silent Dreams: The Story of an Afghan Educator in Taliban-Ruled Afghanistan
The following article was written by Hadia* as part of VIDC’s “Life under the Taliban” series, in which women and men from...
The Unsteady Fate of Afghanistan’s Private Universities Under Taliban Rule
By Ilhamuddin AfghanIn the wake of the past two decades, Afghanistan has witnessed a transformative surge in higher education, both...
Assessing the Geopolitical Implications of the Taliban’s Return to Power in Afghanistan
By Shahmahmood Miakhel On August 15, 2021, the Taliban retook control following a twenty-year period of brutal war. The political,...
Zholia Parsi and Afghan Women: Defying the Odds in the Face of Adversity
Personal narrative by Tahmina Salik My feelings whirled inside of me as soon as I walked out onto the busy...
Afghan Woman in Diaspora Launches Online School for Girls Denied Education by the Taliban
By Ali Ahmad People in Afghanistan often echo inventor and scientist Alexander Graham Bell’s famous statement “If one door closes,...
“A Thousand Splendid Suns” Opera: A Painful Historic Recurrence and A Strong Form of Activism To Voice the Suffering of Afghan Women
By Nazila Jamshidi On February 25, Afghan film director, Roya Sadat, orchestrated an opera based on the bestselling novel of...
