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Taliban Gender Apartheid: Genocide of Hazara Women
GENOCIDE WATCH — After the first arrest on January 4, 2024, the Taliban have imposed strict dress code rules on women and girls across Afghanistan. Hazara women, as part of a persecuted minority in Afghanistan, are especially vulnerable to this enforcement of gender rules. Testimonies of Hazara women who were arrested for dress code violations since the start of the year include multiple assertions of torture and humiliation. These stories provide examples of how the Taliban’s system of strict gender rules, denounced as gender apartheid, are crimes against humanity and are a tool for genocide against Hazaras.
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The U.S. Has a Moral Obligation Toward Afghan Women
MS. MAGAZINE — Under Taliban control, the situation for Afghan women has become dire as they suffer the ongoing loss of basic rights and freedoms. Control of the Taliban has been disproportionately unbearable for Hazara women, who throughout history have suffered the double oppression of being both women and part of an ethnic minority…
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Voices from Kabul, Afghanistan: “You Can Take Our Lives, But Not Our Education”
MS. MAGAZINE — Monday morning, I received more than 40 pictures and six video clips from the horrific mass killing of innocent Hazara girls in Kabul on Saturday…
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The Cost of U.S. Withdrawal From Afghanistan: “Get Ready. The Taliban Are Coming.”
MS. MAGAZINE — I am painfully following the steady drip of news regarding the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. The news seems to run in a loop in the back my mind—along with the images of the five massacre sites I recorded firsthand, from my work visiting and interviewing the survivors of Taliban massacres.
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The Cost of a Peace Deal With the Taliban: Ignoring Concerns of Minority Women
MS. MAGAZINE — On May 15, the maternity ward of Dasht-e-Barchi Hospital, just west of Kabul, was the center of horrific attacks. The Taliban went there to kill mothers and newborn babies—the majority of whom were Hazara. The horrific images of babies and mothers shocked my soul, and made me numb. I felt so powerless and helpless. It was the first time in my life I felt awful pain and hatred…