Podcast The Day: The Women Who Rise Up Against the Taliban

In Afghanistan, unauthorized demonstrations have been banned since this weekend. Yet women who take to the streets to protest for their rights have no intention of stopping. Journalists are also trying to keep doing their job. In podcast Day their stories.

Niloufar is the director of an Afghan television channel and she tells for the first time under her real name how she directs a group of journalists in Kabul from the Netherlands to report on the protests, and how the Taliban act against it. Women and journalists have less and less freedom of movement and violence is increasing, she says.

Correspondent Aletta André also hears that from the women she has contact with from her place of residence in India. She spoke to 30-year-old PhD student Farah, among others. She knows how dangerous it is to speak out, but she is determined to keep doing it. “If we don’t make our voices heard now, what will we tell our children later?”

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