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Afghanistan: Former human rights lawyer, not allowed to practice anymore, running business under the Taliban

Sky News speaks to women in Afghanistan who work in one of the rare female-run and female-owned shops. The manager is a former human rights lawyer, not allowed to do her job anymore. She has turned to the only space where she is allowed to work.

https://news.sky.com/video/how-women-are-running-businesses-under-the-taliban-13578140

Afghanistan’s Gender Apartheid: Five Years of Repression and the Risk of Normalisation

Afghanistan: what happens when you erase women from public life?

https://impactpolicies.org/news/1033/taliban-rule-is-transforming-gender-exclusion-into-a-legal-order

https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/08/03/afghanistan-taliban-assault-on-rights-deepens-5-years-on

https://www.unwomen.org/en/news-stories/press-release/2026/08/five-years-after-the-taliban-takeover-the-normalization-of-the-exclusion-of-women-and-girls-in-afghanistan

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/09/1165823

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2026/08/afghanistan-un-experts-warn-against-normalisation-taliban-rule

Afghanistan: Former human rights lawyer, not allowed to practice anymore, running business under the Taliban

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