Afghan Journalists in Exile: “Like Swimming in a Swamp”
Reporters working in the diaspora face major challenges, despite huge efforts to ensure reporting from within the country continues.
Reporters working in the diaspora face major challenges, despite huge efforts to ensure reporting from within the country continues.
The lack of legal protection under the Taleban means that harassment and discrimination are effectively forcing women out of the workplace.
Defying social pressure to cope with the hardships of the summer heat.
Medical personnel struggle to do their jobs - and patients suffer - under increasingly draconian rules.
Despite brutal repression, independent outlets continue to provide a rare and precious source of information.
What helps me keep going is my belief in our mission to empower women journalists to report on what is happening under the Taleban.
Against all odds and despite constant danger, a brave few continue to report.
Two decades of efforts to protect women and girls has been systematically dismantled.
An ambitious infrastructure project in Afghanistan risks exacerbating scarcities in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.
Women and girls hard hit by increasingly desperate lack of access to medical services.