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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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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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From Monday to Wednesday evening, Afghanistan experienced its first total internet and telephone communication shutdown. The effects were felt immediately throughout Afghanistan.
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October 3, 2025 at 12:51 PM
From Monday to Wednesday evening, Afghanistan experienced its first total internet and telephone communication shutdown. The effects were felt immediately throughout Afghanistan.
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On Monday, the Taliban on the order of their leader, shut down internet access across Afghanistan.
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September 30, 2025 at 10:16 PM
On Monday, the Taliban on the order of their leader, shut down internet access across Afghanistan.
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After first excluding women and girls from secondary school and further education, the regime has been building a vast new network of religious schools that encourage and incentivise a new alternative.
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September 24, 2025 at 7:15 AM
After first excluding women and girls from secondary school and further education, the regime has been building a vast new network of religious schools that encourage and incentivise a new alternative.
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“These online classes were my only source of hope.”
The Taliban had ordered Afghanistan’s fibre-optic internet to be shut down. The restrictions follow a directive from the Taliban’s supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, to “prevent immorality.”
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The Taliban had ordered Afghanistan’s fibre-optic internet to be shut down. The restrictions follow a directive from the Taliban’s supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, to “prevent immorality.”
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September 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
“These online classes were my only source of hope.”
The Taliban had ordered Afghanistan’s fibre-optic internet to be shut down. The restrictions follow a directive from the Taliban’s supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, to “prevent immorality.”
zantimes.com/2025/09/23/i...
The Taliban had ordered Afghanistan’s fibre-optic internet to be shut down. The restrictions follow a directive from the Taliban’s supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, to “prevent immorality.”
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Over the past four years, the Taliban have steadily erased women from Afghanistan’s educational and academic landscape. Now they have banned textbooks authored or compiled by women.
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September 19, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Over the past four years, the Taliban have steadily erased women from Afghanistan’s educational and academic landscape. Now they have banned textbooks authored or compiled by women.
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For the past three years, 15-year-old Noria has continued her studies through educational radio programs. Her father, Haji Chinar Gul, is her greatest supporter.
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The radio classrooms defying the Taliban ban
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September 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
For the past three years, 15-year-old Noria has continued her studies through educational radio programs. Her father, Haji Chinar Gul, is her greatest supporter.
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