Afghan women

Far from seeing their rights as bargaining chips for aid, Afghan women live in a reality where the mounting restrictions also affect their ability to survive.

Women are vital for the delivery of lifesaving assistance in Afghanistan, and aid agencies are calling for a reversal of the ban on Afghan women working at NGOs.

The international community must prioritize evacuating and settling Afghanistan's embattled female population at the earliest possible opportunity.

As Afghan women are being erased from society in Taliban-run Afghanistan, all Afghans will suffer. 

Afghan girls have been banned from high school classrooms but with little advance notice will be allowed one day to take graduation exams. 

It is not surprising why many Afghan women see their life under the Taliban as “death in slow motion.”

The Taliban’s regressive ideology lies at the heart of its political program. It was naive to believe the group would ever give it up.

What is happening right now in Afghanistan is the most serious women’s rights crisis in the world today.

Akhundzada’s hardline orders to impose the full burqa on women and keep them out of schools does not have the support of more pragmatic Taliban leaders.

One is a rebel and the other a bureaucrat. Both are serving the Afghan people but in different ways.

While the world helps Afghanistan battle hunger and the collapse of its healthcare system, women’s rights are at risk of being politically orphaned.

Afghan women are already paying a horrible price for the Taliban takeover.