Refugee Women, the Hidden Side of the Forced Exodus: "Taliban Gender Apartheid Escaped"

"Every day I went to work I thought I wouldn't come home alive. I covered attacks and explosions. It was part of the routine. In Afghanistan it wasn't safe to be a journalist, much less to be a journalist. But I never thought of leaving it. I knew I could die, and I accepted it. Because I felt that my job was worth it."Khadija Amin is part of that tight margin of journalists who embrace daily flirting with death at the expense of telling the tru…

Since the Taliban took power in August 2021, there have been reports of human rights violations in Afghanistan. There are many strict rules especially for women and girls. "Half of the population has nothing to say and no rights," lamented Danish-Afghan activist Tahmina Salik in the APA conversation. Access to education and medicine is as limited as freedom of expression. Internationally, Salik wants more attention.