Political attacks on journalists are increasing across the globe, according to the annual World Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders. These attacks include the detention of journalists, the spreading of misinformation and suppression of independent voices. With more than half of the world’s population going to the polls in 2024, governments are failing…
A woman who got a degree while her husband was a captive of the Taliban has been selected as part of a campaign to inspire other people to attend university. Kelly Cornwell graduated from the University of Cumbria last year with a degree in mental health nursing while her husband Kevin was detained in Afghanistan….
The number of BBC World Service journalists working in exile is estimated to have nearly doubled, to 310, since 2020. The figures, released for the first time ahead of World Press Freedom Day, reflect press crackdowns in Russia, Afghanistan, and Ethiopia. Journalists from other countries, including Iran, have lived abroad for more than a decade….
After the Taliban restricted Afghan women’s ability to work, learn and go out in public, some women initially defied these new rules, taking to the streets to protest. But soon, those who gathered in the capital Kabul and other major cities to demand “food, work, freedom” felt the full force of the Taliban. Protesters tell…
“We decided to protest to demand our basic rights: the right to education, to work, and political participation. We want the Taliban to know that they cannot eliminate us from society.” Those were the words of Arezo, a young woman from Kabul who took to the streets after the Taliban’s announcement that women would not…
Yaqoub Sharafat Radio Television Afghanistan October 16, 2016, in Qalat, Zabul Province, Afghanistan Unknown assailants shot Yaqoub Sharafat, a 23-year-old journalist for the state-run broadcaster Radio Television Afghanistan, the evening of October 16, 2016, in Qalat, the capital of southern Afghanistan’s Zabul province. The journalist was on his way home at the time, though press…
A veteran US photojournalist and a translator have been killed in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. David Gilkey of National Public Radio (NPR) and Zabihullah Tamanna were travelling with the Afghan army when they came under fire and their vehicle was hit by a shell, NPR said. The attack also killed the driver of the…
Three weeks ago,an Afghan man scalded his pregnant wife with petrol in Saghar district of Ghor province. The 13 –year old girl, named Zahra was married at the age of 11 and five days after the husband sets wife on fire, she died in Istiqlal hospital of the capital, Kabul. The history of Zahra starts…
on March 19,2015 a mob of men beat a 27-year-old woman named Farkhunda to death, threw her body off a roof, ran over it with a car, set it on fire and at the end, threw it into the Kabul River. The attack was captured by mobile phone cameras and was widely shared on social…
