When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August 2021, one of their early actions was to ban women from the legal profession. In this conversation, HRW’s Macarena Sáez is joined by Judge Marzia Babakarkhail, Justice Mona Lynch, Judge Basira Qazizada, and Judge Bahida Rahimi to discuss this crisis.

It's been nearly two years since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan. The country has largely disappeared from the media, but it remains one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters. In this Space, we discuss t​​he humanitarian and economic crisis, restrictions on women's rights, and other human rights abuses in the

Afghanistan remains the only country where girls are banned from attending school. Just over 500 days after the Taliban imposed the ban on girls attending secondary school, Sahar Fetrat, Nayera Kohistani, and Birgit Schwarz discuss what it means for the future of Afghanistan.

On September 30, an attack on an educational center in Kabul, Afghanistan, left more than 100 students dead or injured. Most of them were girls. Join HRW’s Fereshta Abbasi and Sahar Fetrat in conversation with Birgit Schwarz.

HRW’s Fereshta Abbasi and John Sifton discuss the ISIS group targeting religious minorities in Afghanistan.

One year after the Taliban took over Afghanistan, HRW discusses the Taliban’s catastrophic year of rule.

In the third of Ken Roth’s Exit Interviews, HRW discusses with Shaharzad Akbar the long fight for human rights in Afghanistan, nearly one year after the Taliban’s takeover in August 2021.

Afghanistan is not the only country where women’s rights are under attack this International Women’s Day. But the speed and extent of the obliteration of women’s rights in Afghanistan is a warning to women around the world about the fragility of progress toward equality, how quickly it can vanish, and how few will defend it

HRW's John Sifton and Fereshta Abbasi react to breaking news about the Biden administration’s decision on Afghanistan’s foreign currency reserves in the US.