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BAMIYAN, Afghanistan When the Taliban seized power across Afghanistan last August, Aaila's first reaction was to stage an act of quiet protest. As Taliban fighters swept into Bamiyan, the ancient city in central Afghanistan, the 37-year-old got behind the wheel of her white Toyota and drove around town.
Watery snow muffles Sarah's footsteps as she walks through the streets of Kabul to a clandestine school set up to fight the Taliban's draconian restrictions on education for girls. It is a risky journey. When a man steps out of a bakery carrying flatbread, Sarah stops speaking English and walks faster.
KABUL - This investigation sheds a light on the scale of abuse Afghan women are subjected to when trying to reach Europe. Women with no documents and no money are exposed to trafficking by unscrupulous smugglers who take advantage of the situation.
SARA PERRIA, Contributing writer KABUL -- When the Taliban took over Kabul in August, Ismat, a shopkeeper, stocked up with piles of burqas. For older Afghans, the sight of numerous checkpoints and fighters armed with newly acquired American weapons revived memories of women rushing to buy the all-enveloping garment during the previous Taliban regime from 1996 to 2001.
COVID-19, Crime & Justice, Europe, Featured, Global, Headlines, Health, Human Rights, Humanitarian Emergencies, Migration & Refugees, TerraViva United Nations Supported by the European Journalism Centre* - Responding to several shouts Viraj emerges from the ruins of his shelter in northwest Bosnia.
Zar Li is not the same lawyer she was in January. In the "old Myanmar" she used to like hanging out in her Yangon apartment, performing a Whitney Houston song or cooking her favorite dishes. Now, under constant threat to her life, she works relentlessly under searing sun outside Yangon prisons to defend protesters against the Myanmar military regime that seized power on Feb.
YANGON, Myanmar ― Golden earrings swing from San San Thwin's ears as she serves customers in her grocery store in Mingalun village, 90 miles from Myanmar's commercial capital Yangon. This is what she has done almost every day for 30 years, but there has been a striking change in recent times: Every item for sale, with the exception of the eggs at the entrance, now comes packaged in plastic.
Bamiyan, Afghanistan - It's 6am and Freshta is sweeping the floor of her makeshift cave school in Bamiyan province of Afghanistan. Donkeys descend the orange-dirt hills of her timeless village to fetch water, while cave homes awake to the smell of freshly baked flatbread.
As the judge speaks, the defendant's face twists in anger, his body shaking. His family is stunned. Zaw Htwe broke a pane of glass worth 500 kyat ($0.35) while protesting in south-east Myanmar against a quarrying company's renewed licence.
n the mountain village of Kalaw, Myanmar, women in bamboo hats are busy laying the foundations of a road. They woke at dawn, ate mohinga fish soup for breakfast and then joined other female colleagues in the boiling sun. Surrounded by red soil and gravel, the five-month baby of 21-year-old Cho Mi Ko is also on the roadside.