Her Afghanistan: When Words Become Walls

  • So What Can We Do?

    There is no single remedy to end online abuse of Afghan women, but four kinds of response measurably reduce its harm: personal digital safety, organized counter-speech, platform reform, and networks women build for one another. So far, this series has followed the abuse step by step. It has examined what the abuse looks like, what…

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  • The Cost of Speaking Up

    Hate speech against Afghan women is not only a set of words. It is a price attached to being seen, and many women are paying it by being silenced. How the abuse arrives After the Taliban returned to power in August 2021, street protests were often suppressed. Social media, especially X, became one of the…

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  • Hate Speech Against Afghan Girls

    Since the fall of Kabul in 2021, Afghan girls and women have been barred from secondary school and university and pushed out of most public life; they are not allowed to enter the workforce or, to be realistic, even to set foot outside their homes without a man. So what is there left to do?…

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