Regions / Central Asia / Afghanistan

In spite of the overwhelming odds against them, a spirit of feminist resistance exists among Afghanistan’s girls and women. Jen Ross reports.

Where the debt-ridden and desperate come to heal from kidney donation surgery, by Subi Shah.

Defying the Taliban’s resurgent war on women.

Save Afghanistan.

The unlikely ‘friendly face’ of the Taliban.

The vicious game of hounding out asylum-seekers in Europe continues in defiance of international law. Katie Dancey-Downs reports.

Highlighting the work of artists and photographers from the Majority World.

US photographer Steve McCurry, best known for his 1984 portrait of the green-eyed ‘Afghan Girl’, speaks to Graeme Green about America, human nature and whether or not the world has gone mad.

A profile of Afghan campaigner for women’s education and rights Jamila Afghani, who started by persuading the imams. Beena Nadeem talks to the unassuming trailblazer

The facts, figures, images and NI assessment of Afghanistan.

Veronique Mistiaen meets Afghanistan’s ‘mother of education’, who for more than two decades has been transforming lives through community-based learning.

Poetry has traditionally been a powerful medium to comment on social and political life in Afghanistan, but it is now mostly for men, writes Ruchi Kumar.

Smoke and ash in Afghanistan.

Afghan women are cycling to empowerment. By Kelsi Farrington.

Valeska Hovener and Marielle van Uitert hear how two Afghan women who have fled family abuse are learning to move on.

The Afghan photo-journalist is using his own experience of asylum to help others. He speaks to Michelle Slater.

Encouraging people to act out their trauma results not just in empathy but in action. Hjalmar Jorge Joffre-Eichhorn has witnessed the transformation first hand.

Ewa Jasiewicz wonders what the US troops will be leaving behind.

Heaven help military personnel who blow the whistle. Alexa O’Brien is tracking the case of Chelsea Manning.

Afghan MP Fawzia Koofi wants women to get out of their traditional closet.