Zan Times
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A women-led newsroom reporting on the human rights situation, women and the LGBTQ community in Afghanistan.
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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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"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, 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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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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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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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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Given the Taliban’s current approach to educational institutions, the regime appears determined to transform Afghanistan’s universities into religious seminaries of the Taliban’s design.
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September 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Given the Taliban’s current approach to educational institutions, the regime appears determined to transform Afghanistan’s universities into religious seminaries of the Taliban’s design.
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Radio stations have become a lifeline for girls’ education, with men—fathers, brothers, teachers, and operators—risking their lives to deliver lessons and homework.
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September 15, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Radio stations have become a lifeline for girls’ education, with men—fathers, brothers, teachers, and operators—risking their lives to deliver lessons and homework.
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What is happening to Afghanistan’s Ismailis is not simply persecution — it is an attempt at erasure. Forced religious conformity, cultural destruction, and targeted violence are reshaping one of Afghanistan’s oldest minority communities.
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September 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
What is happening to Afghanistan’s Ismailis is not simply persecution — it is an attempt at erasure. Forced religious conformity, cultural destruction, and targeted violence are reshaping one of Afghanistan’s oldest minority communities.
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In the shattered houses of Wadeer village in Afghanistan’s Kunar province, survivors of Sunday’s devastating earthquake that has killed more than 2,200 people say they are still waiting for the most basic help: food and shelter.
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September 5, 2025 at 8:27 AM
In the shattered houses of Wadeer village in Afghanistan’s Kunar province, survivors of Sunday’s devastating earthquake that has killed more than 2,200 people say they are still waiting for the most basic help: food and shelter.
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In the past month, a wave of arrests — really abductions — has swept across Kabul. Women and girls accused of “improper hijab” have been dragged off the streets, out of markets, and even from restaurants by the Taliban’s morality police.
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September 2, 2025 at 1:42 PM
In the past month, a wave of arrests — really abductions — has swept across Kabul. Women and girls accused of “improper hijab” have been dragged off the streets, out of markets, and even from restaurants by the Taliban’s morality police.
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Today’s Afghanistan is different. Fathers no longer have the freedom to give wings to their daughters’ dreams. My father lived our dreams as though they were his own, rejoicing in even our smallest achievements.
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August 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Today’s Afghanistan is different. Fathers no longer have the freedom to give wings to their daughters’ dreams. My father lived our dreams as though they were his own, rejoicing in even our smallest achievements.
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