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· Mar 3
Women in Afghanistan are being erased from public life. We ask that you do not stand by and let that happen in journalism as well. We need your help, NOW.
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The police entered the park and stormed our sleeping places, beating and arresting us. Everyone was screaming. A seven-year-old child was kicked so violently that blood was pouring from his head and mouth.
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December 6, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The police entered the park and stormed our sleeping places, beating and arresting us. Everyone was screaming. A seven-year-old child was kicked so violently that blood was pouring from his head and mouth.
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As the world marks November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Afghan women have endured the worst forms of violence under the Taliban regime for more than four years.
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December 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
As the world marks November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Afghan women have endured the worst forms of violence under the Taliban regime for more than four years.
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My maternal cousin came to meet me outside my madrasa and offered to walk me home. We were both happy to see each other, unaware that this would be the last time we met as cousins. For the “crime” of talking and walking together, the Taliban arrested us.
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December 1, 2025 at 10:30 PM
My maternal cousin came to meet me outside my madrasa and offered to walk me home. We were both happy to see each other, unaware that this would be the last time we met as cousins. For the “crime” of talking and walking together, the Taliban arrested us.
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The comfort of men never disturbed by the women they have killed
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The comfort of men never disturbed by the women they have killed
A Facebook page called Poetry Club posted a memorial for Nadia Anjuman on November 5. In its introduction, it claimed she had “ended her life through suicide.” This is the third time I have read someo...
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December 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The comfort of men never disturbed by the women they have killed
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‘Sister, I’m dying..help me!’ How ‘family honour’ condemns women to pain and suffering in Afghanistan
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‘Sister, I’m dying..help me!’ How ‘family honour’ condemns women to pain and suffering
I want to tell the story of my sister, Sakina. She is 31, two years younger than me. About nine years ago, we became brides at the same wedding ceremony on the same day. I married my cousin, while Sak...
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November 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
‘Sister, I’m dying..help me!’ How ‘family honour’ condemns women to pain and suffering in Afghanistan
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We are proud to announce that our colleague Sana Atef has received the 2025 IWMF Courage in Journalism Award. At Zan Times, we are grateful to IWMF for recognizing the courage and work of our colleague.
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Sana Atef: 2025 Courage in Journalism Award Winner
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November 26, 2025 at 11:27 PM
We are proud to announce that our colleague Sana Atef has received the 2025 IWMF Courage in Journalism Award. At Zan Times, we are grateful to IWMF for recognizing the courage and work of our colleague.
Help us celebrate her. Help us amplify her voice.
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Help us celebrate her. Help us amplify her voice.
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Afghanistan is now a country where the youngest and poorest are trapped between hunger at home and violence on the streets. Child workers face arrest, forced labour, and the risk of disappearance in Taliban custody.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Afghanistan is now a country where the youngest and poorest are trapped between hunger at home and violence on the streets. Child workers face arrest, forced labour, and the risk of disappearance in Taliban custody.
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Child labourers are being rounded up, beaten, and imprisoned by the Taliban
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Child labourers are being rounded up, beaten, and imprisoned by the Taliban
Haron was five years old when he began working on the streets of Kabul. Now 11, he sells socks from a woven basket and carries a small scale so people can weigh themselves. On a good day, he makes 200...
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November 20, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Child labourers are being rounded up, beaten, and imprisoned by the Taliban
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"I want to tell them I'll clean your school for free—just accept my son." A Zan Times report follows an Afghan mother's struggle to enroll her child in an Iranian school, revealing a system that denies kids education despite official referral letters.
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November 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
"I want to tell them I'll clean your school for free—just accept my son." A Zan Times report follows an Afghan mother's struggle to enroll her child in an Iranian school, revealing a system that denies kids education despite official referral letters.
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The Zan Times editorial team apologizes to its readers for publishing this inaccurate information and reaffirms its commitment to preventing such errors in the future.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:12 AM
The Zan Times editorial team apologizes to its readers for publishing this inaccurate information and reaffirms its commitment to preventing such errors in the future.
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Until Afghanistan is free from gender apartheid, every home must become a secret school, every kitchen a classroom, every living room a place of resistance.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Until Afghanistan is free from gender apartheid, every home must become a secret school, every kitchen a classroom, every living room a place of resistance.
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What was meant to be a night of joy in northern Afghanistan turned into one of mourning and devastation.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
What was meant to be a night of joy in northern Afghanistan turned into one of mourning and devastation.
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New UN Probe to investigate decades of Afghan abuses by all parties: An interview with Richard Bennett, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan.
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New UN Probe to investigate decades of Afghan abuses by all parties, interview with Richard Bennett
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November 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
New UN Probe to investigate decades of Afghan abuses by all parties: An interview with Richard Bennett, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan.
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New UN Probe to investigate decades of Afghan abuses by all parties, interview with Richard Bennett
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October 31, 2025 at 5:53 PM
New UN Probe to investigate decades of Afghan abuses by all parties, interview with Richard Bennett
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‘Where else can we go?’ As refugees return, Afghanistan’s housing crisis deepens
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‘Where else can we go?’ As refugees return, Afghanistan’s housing crisis deepens
This report has been published in partnership with The Indian Express In September, Soheila* arrived in Herat with her husband and two young children. She had returned to Afghanistan after five years ...
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October 30, 2025 at 4:09 PM
‘Where else can we go?’ As refugees return, Afghanistan’s housing crisis deepens
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This time, airstrikes or foreign armies will not liberate Afghanistan. It will be reclaimed by the persistence of its people — by teachers who teach in secret, by journalists who report from secret locations, and by activists who refuse to be silent.
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October 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
This time, airstrikes or foreign armies will not liberate Afghanistan. It will be reclaimed by the persistence of its people — by teachers who teach in secret, by journalists who report from secret locations, and by activists who refuse to be silent.
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The court’s ruling has ignited fears that the Taliban will evict Hazara residents from their homes as part of a broader policy of forced displacement and demographic engineering.
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October 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The court’s ruling has ignited fears that the Taliban will evict Hazara residents from their homes as part of a broader policy of forced displacement and demographic engineering.
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Khalid was unmarried and a graduate in economics. His father, a former employee of the Interior Ministry, was killed in a bombing in 2014. Now, a second explosion has shattered what remained of their family.
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October 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Khalid was unmarried and a graduate in economics. His father, a former employee of the Interior Ministry, was killed in a bombing in 2014. Now, a second explosion has shattered what remained of their family.
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Since girls were banned from schools in Afghanistan, families have faced very few alternatives. Most are either pressured or persuaded by financial incentives to send their daughters to religious schools.
October 17, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Since girls were banned from schools in Afghanistan, families have faced very few alternatives. Most are either pressured or persuaded by financial incentives to send their daughters to religious schools.
From Kabul to China: A Journey sparked by ‘Letters of an Afghan Woman’
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October 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
From Kabul to China: A Journey sparked by ‘Letters of an Afghan Woman’
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For Zarmina Paryani, who was imprisoned twice by the Taliban, the People’s Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan was more than a legal process.
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‘Good enough’: Afghan women seek justice at the people’s tribunal in Madrid
For Zarmina Paryani, who was imprisoned twice by the Taliban, the People’s Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan was more than a legal process. It was an act of freedom, she tells Zan Times. The tribunal...
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October 11, 2025 at 10:26 PM
For Zarmina Paryani, who was imprisoned twice by the Taliban, the People’s Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan was more than a legal process.
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The People’s Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan held in Madrid from October 8–10, 2025, issued a preliminary statement by a panel of judges.
October 10, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The People’s Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan held in Madrid from October 8–10, 2025, issued a preliminary statement by a panel of judges.
The People’s Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan aims to document and expose the systematic gender persecution under Taliban rule.
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October 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
The People’s Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan aims to document and expose the systematic gender persecution under Taliban rule.
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With jobs disappearing, many women and girls have turned to informal work as they are the few livelihoods that have not yet been explicitly banned for them.
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October 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
With jobs disappearing, many women and girls have turned to informal work as they are the few livelihoods that have not yet been explicitly banned for them.
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