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A women-led newsroom reporting on the human rights situation, women and the LGBTQ community in Afghanistan. Sign up to stay informed: https://t.co/6cUXTXXxH5
Afghanistan
Joined July 2022
We are working to keep the world informed about the worst women’s rights crisis of our time and its impact on 20 million women and girls in Afghanistan. The recent funding freeze by the U.S. has affected us. We need your support to continue our work and document Taliban crimes.
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"I want to tell them I'll clean your school for free—just accept my son." A Zan Times report follows an Afghan mother's struggle to enroll her child in an Iranian school, revealing a system that denies kids education despite official referral letters. https://t.co/lxPcUgXyrh
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The Zan Times editorial team apologizes to its readers for publishing this inaccurate information and reaffirms its commitment to preventing such errors in the future. https://t.co/qJiHysMYRC
What was meant to be a night of joy in northern Afghanistan turned into one of mourning and devastation. https://t.co/qJiHysMYRC
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Speaking against the Taliban’s gender apartheid regime is frightening, but remaining silent is far more terrifying because nothing will change on its own. https://t.co/adDW7TRYqL
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Until Afghanistan is free from gender apartheid, every home must become a secret school, every kitchen a classroom, every living room a place of resistance.
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Until Afghanistan is free from gender apartheid, every home must become a secret school, every kitchen a classroom, every living room a place of resistance. https://t.co/adDW7TRqBd
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What was meant to be a night of joy in northern Afghanistan turned into one of mourning and devastation. https://t.co/qJiHysMYRC
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New UN Probe to investigate decades of Afghan abuses by all parties: An interview with Richard Bennett, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan.
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New UN Probe to investigate decades of Afghan abuses by all parties, interview with Richard Bennett https://t.co/BtuaafrG9z
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‘Where else can we go?’ As refugees return, Afghanistan’s housing crisis deepens https://t.co/cAu0vOBnZA
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This report has been published in partnership with The Indian Express In September, Soheila* arrived in Herat with her husband and two young children. She had returned to Afghanistan after five years...
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This time, airstrikes or foreign armies will not liberate Afghanistan. It will be reclaimed by the persistence of its people — by teachers who teach in secret, by journalists who report from secret locations, and by activists who refuse to be silent. https://t.co/hflvjsMf3E
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The court’s ruling has ignited fears that the Taliban will evict Hazara residents from their homes as part of a broader policy of forced displacement and demographic engineering. https://t.co/c0TcqwG6ea
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Kabul reels after deadly airstrikes during the Taliban-Pakistan war https://t.co/Lk62LJy8gx
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On Wednesday, October 15, Khalid left his home to work as a taxi driver. At around 3:15 p.m., the 25-year-old was heading toward Airport Road. Moments later, as he approached Taimani 5th street, a...
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Since girls were banned from schools in Afghanistan, families have faced very few alternatives. Most are either pressured or persuaded by financial incentives to send their daughters to religious schools.
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As tensions intensify between the Taliban and Islamabad, we are witnessing an unprecedented welcome extended by New Delhi to the Taliban’s foreign minister, along with India’s announcement that it is upgrading its diplomatic presence in Kabul.. https://t.co/sHsLHdZQb3
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From Kabul to China: A Journey sparked by ‘Letters of an Afghan Woman’ https://t.co/HkaNxawbJI
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For Zarmina Paryani, who was imprisoned twice by the Taliban, the People’s Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan was more than a legal process. https://t.co/r0HhSvWHPs
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For Zarmina Paryani, who was imprisoned twice by the Taliban, the People’s Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan was more than a legal process. It was an act of freedom, she tells Zan Times. The...
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The People’s Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan held in Madrid from October 8–10, 2025, issued a preliminary statement by a panel of judges.
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The People’s Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan aims to document and expose the systematic gender persecution under Taliban rule. https://t.co/ZYPYkL9bhd
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With jobs disappearing, many women and girls have turned to informal work as they are the few livelihoods that have not yet been explicitly banned for them. https://t.co/DtvXo6aYOl
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From Monday to Wednesday evening, Afghanistan experienced its first total internet and telephone communication shutdown. The effects were felt immediately throughout Afghanistan. https://t.co/NzJKTIuvGj
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On Monday, the Taliban on the order of their leader, shut down internet access across Afghanistan.
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