Articles
The Continuing Saga of Aisha–and the Women of Afghanistan
When she appeared on the cover of TIME in August 2010, Aisha Bibi became an immediate symbol of the plight of Afghanistan–and the rights of its women–if the...
Taliban Terror or Mass Hysteria: Who Is Poisoning Afghanistan’s Girls?
On April 17, 150 girls were transported from their school in the Afghan province of Takhar to a hospital, reporting signs of dizziness, nausea, and headaches...
The Plight of Afghan Women: A Disturbing Picture
Our cover image this week is powerful, shocking and disturbing. It is a portrait of Aisha, a shy 18-year-old Afghan woman who was sentenced by a Taliban...
Meena
Meena called the women of Afghanistan sleeping lions, pledging that one day they would awake and roar. In 1977, at the age of 20, she launched the country's...
Veil of Tears
Taliban-controlled Afghanistan is no place for children, especially young girls. That's why Parvana, the 11-year-old heroine of Deborah Ellis' children's novel...
The Advocate
Soraya Parlika didn't have to run secret schools for young women when the Taliban ruled Kabul. She didn't have to open her home for meetings on women's rights in...
What's Hard to Look At.
Our cover image this week is powerful, shocking and disturbing. It is a portrait of Aisha, a shy 18-year-old Afghan woman who was sentenced by a Taliban...
Talking Points: China and the U.S.
Father Paul A priest in China's underground, non-approved Catholic Church I hope President Bush will use his influence to encourage Hu to establish...
Remember Afghanistan?
Hamid Karzai is lonely. He is huddled, as always, deep inside his presidential palace in Kabul, protected by towering stone walls, growling dogs and U.S...
Kabul: The Activist: Stirrings of a Woman's Movement
The veils came off last Tuesday. Two hundred women had assembled outside the Kabul apartment of Soraya Parlika, Afghanistan's most prominent woman activist,...
Photo Essays
Women of Afghanistan Under Taliban Threat
Photographer Jodi Bieber wins World Press Photo of the Year 2010 for her TIME magazine cover image of Bibi Aisha Photographs by Jodi Bieber / Institute for...
