Afghan women's rights

For women, the motivation to leave Afghanistan has increased tremendously since the Taliban takeover. But the journey abroad has become more difficult and dangerous, too.

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. 

Out: depictions of living things, human rights, foreign inventors, and elections. In: the “seeds of hatred against Western countries” and the rest of the Taliban’s core ideology. 

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

“After the collapse of the state, everything changed for Afghan women.”

Another tragedy in the largely Hazara Dashti Barchi neighborhood. Another tragedy for Afghanistan’s women. 

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.

The activist, Tamana Zaryabi Paryani, was among about 25 women who took part in an anti-Taliban protest on Sunday against the compulsory Islamic headscarf, or hijab, for women.