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Year Four Under the Taliban: What It Has Meant for Afghanistan’s Hazaras

On August 15, 2025, Afghanistan entered the fourth year since the Taliban’s return to power. For the country’s Hazara community ...

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Hazara Woman, Afghanistan

Year Four Under the Taliban: What It Has Meant for Afghanistan’s Hazaras

by Akram Gizabi
September 13, 2025
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On August 15, 2025, Afghanistan entered the fourth year since the Taliban’s return to power. For the country’s Hazara community this period has been marked by a complex mix of insecurity, shrinking civic space, economic freefall, and steadily tightening religious and social controls. The headline story is familiar: the Taliban consolidated territorial control and reduced battlefield violence. But zoom in on Hazara districts—from Kabul’s Dasht-e-Barchi to the central highlands of...

Situation of the Hazaras in the Fourth Year of Taliban Rule

The Situation of the Hazaras in the Fourth Year of Taliban Rule

by Bolaq Analysts Network (Bolaq)
August 17, 2025
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August 15, 2025 Bolaq Analysts Network (BAN) is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental research and advocacy organization that publishes comprehensive and unbiased research on Afghanistan's various social, political, and economic issues. This organization is registered in the United States. We monitor the situation in Afghanistan and document the conduct of the Taliban visa-vis the people of in accordance with international standards and carry out research in connection with various issues, especially...

A Letter to My Nephew: On Being Hazara

A Letter to My Nephew: On Being Hazara

by Anis Rezaei
July 9, 2025
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Author: Anis Rezaei People were hastily—anxiously, even—rushing past each other to catch the next train. Just another normal day at a train station in our fast-paced city: London. My nephew J and I were walking up the stairs to reach the platform. I was immersed in the crowd, yet attentive to his energetic and playful conduct as we embarked on our expedition. We were midway up the stairs when, to...

Report on Access To Education for Women Under the Taliban

Report on Access To Education for Women Under the Taliban

by Afghanistan Human Rights Center
January 28, 2025
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Shared Report - the following report is a shared report that Bolaq does not own. Introduction The full report as PDF here... When the Taliban seized power in August 2021, the Taliban's first action was to prohibit the education of girls above the sixth grade, closing the doors of schools to them. Following this, over the past three years, the Taliban systematically and intentionally restricted the education of women and...

2024: Hazaras Still at Risk of Genocide and Oppression Under the Taliban Regime

2024: Hazaras Still at Risk of Genocide and Oppression Under the Taliban Regime

by Besmillah Taban
December 29, 2024
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Besmillah Taban Abstract The Hazara community in Afghanistan has faced a long history of persecution, discrimination, and violence, dating back to the time of Abdur Rahman Khan (Amir of Afghanistan from 1880 to his death in 1901) and continuing into the present under the Taliban regime. Despite historical changes in government and legal systems, the treatment of Hazaras has remained marked by human rights abuses, including massacres, forced exclusions, and...

AHRDO Conference Berlin Germany

Ethnic Hazaras: a Transnational identity at a Displacement conference

by Yulun Jaffarson
January 29, 2025
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Listen to Audio version of this article on Bolaq’s YouTube Channel International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, AHRDO and Global Initiatives for Justice, Truth & Reconciliation (GIJTR) collaborated together to hold some workshops with some advocacy-based organizations that worked with displaced people, and for the rights of different demographics of the people of Afghanistan. As a senior researcher for Bolaq Analysts Network, I took part in the online workshops along...

International Women's Day - Hazara Woman

International Women’s Day: A History of Advocacy and the Hazara Women’s Rights under Taliban Rule

by Akram Gizabi
December 28, 2024
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Listen to Audio version of this article on Bolaq’s YouTube Channel Introduction International Women's Day (IWD) is a global celebration of women's achievements and a call to action for gender equality. Since its inception, IWD has been a rallying point for women's rights activists worldwide. However, for many women, including the Hazara women of Afghanistan, the struggle for equality is far from over, particularly under the oppressive rule of the...