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‘When she turns eight they will take her’: rising number of Afghan girls being sold into child marriage
Child marriage is not new to south Asia. While the practice across the region had been declining, however, the Taliban takeover has reversed that trend in Afghanistan, and turned it into outright…
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9m‘Her face was beaten in’: how Taliban rule ushered in a new era of women being killed
This investigation exposes the systemic impunity for domestic violence in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, where countless women are murdered by family members, with many deaths falsely categorized as suicides.
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13mInside the deadly collapse of maternity care in Afghanistan
Afghanistan's healthcare system is in a catastrophic decline, where clinic closures, staffing shortages, and international aid cuts are causing a preventable surge in maternal and neonatal deaths.