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    Zahra Nader

    As the Taliban step up restrictions, women face a total ban from working in the media industry

    Once a thriving presence on air, Afghan women are now at risk of being banned entirely from working in media after latest Taliban warning.
    by Zahra Nader

    ‘We have no hope’: What Pakistan’s expulsion of Afghan refugees means for women

    With nearly 400,000 Afghans forced to leave Pakistan in recent months, women and girls who return to their homeland face serious threat.
    by Zahra Nader

    Reporter’s Notebook: As suicides rise in Afghanistan, getting people to open up under the Taliban poses enormous challenges

    News stories about Afghan women dying by suicide made Zahra Nader want to dig deeper. Getting people to open up took months.
    by Zahra Nader

    Afghan women take their own lives as despair grows under Taliban rule

    An investigation into rising female suicides in Afghanistan as the Taliban erodes women’s rights.
    by Zahra Nader

    Afghan women tell us how their lives have changed

    Ahead of International Women’s Day, we asked three Afghan women how their lives had changed since the Taliban took over. These are their stories.
    by Zahra Nader

    ‘We have to fight back.’ Afghan women are losing their hard-won right to work under the Taliban

    Afghan women's participation in the workforce rose steadily in the 20 years after the Taliban were ousted from government. Since they returned to power, those gains have been rapidly eroding. Now activists fear a new edict mandating the burqa in public could destroy them altogether.
    by Zahra Nader

    Forced back into the burqa, Afghan women speak out

    Afghan women are speaking out in protest of the Taliban’s decree mandating women wear a burqa or niqab at all times in public.
    by Zahra Nader

    “Afghanistan is hell for queer and trans people”

    There are many dangers faced by the Afghan Queer community after the Taliban’s return to power.
    by Zahra Nader

    What the Taliban means for queer Afghans

    During the US occupation, little was done to build a support network for the LGBTQ+ community in Afghanistan. Now their lives are in danger as they struggle to flee.
    by Zahra Nader

    Dating in the time of the Taliban

    For most Young Afghans coming of age under US occupation, the Taliban was a history lesson. For them, mingling in restaurants and dating was normal. Now, everything has changed.
    by Zahra Nader

    Afghanistan’s new government imposes discriminatory restrictions on healthcare

    A new requirement from the Taliban— that women be accompanied by a male chaperone when seeking healthcare—is preventing many Afghan women from getting the treatment they need at a time when the country is facing a severe economic crisis, food insecurity and a massive spike in COVID-19 cases.
    by Zahra Nader

    Dispatches From Afghanistan: 'The Humiliation I Experienced Just to Escape the Taliban'

    Get trampled or crawl through sewage? An Afghan woman describes the "humiliating" conditions fleeing Afghans faced while trying to escape Afghanistan after the Taliban took over.
    by Zahra Nader

    Dispatches from Afghanistan: 'The Taliban Came and Killed My Spirit!'

    A school teacher in central Afghanistan laments the loss of educational opportunities for girls and women since the Taliban took control.
    by Zahra Nader

    ‘I Wish We Had Died Rather Than Live Through That Day’: Dispatches From the Women of Afghanistan

    Ordinary Afghan women share firsthand accounts on what life is like in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
    by Zahra Nader

    ‘They Left Us to the Taliban’

    Six Afghan women describe their feelings of fear, anger, and betrayal in the wake of America’s departure.
    by Zahra Nader

    What Afghanistan’s women stand to lose

    For the past 20 years, Afghan women were told to chase their dreams. But within days of the Taliban takeover, Afghan women are mourning their working lives and freedom.
    by Zahra Nader
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