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Travel influencers from the US, Europe, and Australia are flocking to the country, often portraying it as safe and welcoming. Afghan women themselves say influencers are helping the Taliban whitewash ...
A model strutting the catwalk is hardly revolutionary in most countries, but Afghan television's answer to "America's Next Top Model" is breaking boundaries and revealing the beauty under the burqa.
Chela Noori, the founder and president of the Afghan Women of France organisation, was recently able to travel across ...
What might feel like an adventurous trip to an underexplored country can turn out to be an unintentional investment in the ...
I was treated like a queen’; ‘it’s beautiful’… This is how influencers from Western countries are describing Afghanistan ...
They wandered through the museum, listening attentively as their guide explained the antiquities in display cabinets. It could have been any tour ...
Security forces in Afghanistan used fire hoses, Tasers and fired guns into the air to break up a protest by dozens of women demonstrating against a beauty salon ban.
Afghan women forced into secret beauty salons amid Taliban persecution — media According to the newspaper, many women are afraid to visit them even on the eve of their weddings DUBAI, August 29.
For every story I hear, I know there are hundreds of others that are not getting out. Between January 2022 and June 2024, Afghan Witness documented 840 incidents of gender-based violence against women ...
The Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021 as U.S. and NATO forces withdrew after more than two decades of a costly war.
It’s been four years since the U.S. and all its NATO partners packed up and left Afghanistan, pulling themselves out of the quagmire. If we’re counting from August 15, we could shave nine days off ...