Governments must take urgent action to end gender-based violence by “embedding evidence-based prevention across national systems” and committing “sustained, long-term financing” to scale what works.

Fidai Rahmati is the editor and content writer for Khaama Press. You may follow him at Twitter @FidelRahmati Former Afghanistan Human Rights Commission chief Sima Samar says men in Afghanistan have ...

Memoirs don’t come much more inspirational than this dispatch from medical doctor and activist Simar detailing her women’s rights advocacy in Afghanistan. Born in 1957 to a Hazara family—an ...

Since returning to power three years ago, the Taliban have been enforcing oppressive laws that violate people’s freedoms and human rights, especially those of women and girls. But a newly passed “vice ...

(The Conversation) — Since returning to power three years ago, the Taliban have been enforcing oppressive laws that violate people’s freedoms and human rights, especially those of women and girls. But ...

The Taliban government in Afghanistan is drawing renewed outrage over a new law banning women’s voices in public, forcing them to completely cover their bodies and faces out of the home, and more.

When Joe Biden’s presidency began in 2021, Afghan official Nader Nadery knew that the new commander in chief was determined to pull U.S. troops from his country. But Nadery, like other Afghanswho ...

The world has long been aware of the scourge of apartheid -- the systemic segregation or discrimination of people based on their race. But what about the institutionalized practice of singling people ...

SIMA SAMAR (48A: Human rights advocate and former Chairperson of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission) SIMA SAMAR's memoir, Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan, ...

Leading Afghan women’s rights activists have sounded the alarm ahead of a major international conference on Afghanistan hosted by the United Nations. Rights campaigners have slammed the world body for ...

Guests: KPFA’s own Visionary Activist, Caroline Casey with musical accomplices Amikaeyla, & Brianna Di Mara; Sarah Rodriguez, dog trainer with spinal muscular atrophy and owner of Homeschooled Hound; ...

Interview with Dr Sima Samar about the current situation for women and girls in Afghanistan after the US-negotiated return of the Taliban and about her life and her new book, Outspoken: My Fight for ...