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Wahida was clinically diagnosed to have smallpox disease at her birth. To save her life, the doctors had one choice: to cut her foot. Years later, she lost another foot to war. “I was deprived of education nearly for three years after my foot was injured,” she says. One of…

This year on the occasion of the international women solidarity day, a number of women’s rights visited victims of domestic violence at the Herat Regional Hospital. Zahra and Eqlima, the two victims of domestic violence, were laying in critical condition. Zahra Ahmadi, 30, is a victim of violence, who has…

A day before the International Women’s Day, Soghra Amiri, seemingly satisfied with her achievement, received me in her neatly well-ordered spacious house in the western neighborhood of Kabul. She looks at her early 40s. Strong and smartly business-minded, Ms. Amiri is running a flourishing food business that has rapidly found…

Ehsan, Elyas, and Yesna wait for their mother who left her house on a spring day and never came back. In the absence of their mother, their lives seem like a routine shuttered business. “Your mother is in heaven and she watches you all the time,” Muharram Ali, the father…

The crowd of spectators became dumbfounded as Abdul Ahad, a young boxer with a disability, knocked out his rival who had no physical disability. Ahad’s victory brought a marked sign of happiness and self-confidence on his face. His breathtaking move changed the perception of the crowd of spectators.  Abdul Ahads’s…

For Abdul Majid Deljo life in the  Wakhan corridor is a harsh day-to-day challenge for survival. The inhabitants of this snowcapped peak depend on livestock and agriculture for a living. Communication, health, education, and road infrastructures are almost zero in Wakhan. The mortality rate among Wakhani mothers is high. In…

In a spacious dim room of Spin Boldak municipality tribal elders, religious leaders, young students, and government workers had come together to discuss education, security, and other community issues. But no woman was present in the room. Spin Boldak is a border town in the southern province of Kandahar. The…

By: Zahra Nader and Aber Shaygan Momena Ebrahimi, a policewoman, says she was raped by her commander when she refused his demand to sleep with a visiting police official. When she tried to report the crime, a network of local politicians and police officials blocked her efforts. Fatima Ahmadi, a…

“Move if you are standing, stand up if you are sitting. Come here, hurry up!” Abdul Baqi, 47, listened to a voice message sent by his niece, Ahmadullah. Having offered his morning prayer, Baqi was inside a mosque in Kandahar city as he caught the trembling voice of his niece…

Many Afghans started to fear the fatal outcome of then a less-known virus as the pandemic coronavirus hit Afghanistan’s western Herat city. A growing poverty, an already overburdened health infrastructure, and poor government service pushed the already desperate many Afghan families to labyrinth of concern and confusion. A growing fear…