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The Afghanistan Reckoning
Forever wars and the costs of collective forgetting.
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Mélissa Cornet
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No Woman's Land: https://shop.nowomansland.com/no-womans-land.html
Illustrated @crisisgroup.org 's latest report on Afghan women-led businesses, a lifeline and one of the last ways to engage the Taliban on women's rights. To read it: www.crisisgroup.org/cmt/asia-pac...
Working around Restrictions: Afghan Women Build Businesses under the Taliban | International Crisis Group
After the Taliban took power in Afghanistan in 2021, they severely curtailed women’s rights. The private sector, in particular small-scale entrepreneurship, has emerged as one of the last spaces where...
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Crisis Group@crisisgroup.org · 5mo ago“We work almost secretly.” The Taliban have gutted female employment in the public sector and non-governmental organisations. However, despite the myriad harsh controls imposed on their lives, a growing number of Afghan women are charting a course forward. www.crisisgroup.org/cmt/asia-pac...
GIRLTALKHQ: New Photobook Documents The Resilience Of Women And Girls In Afghanistan Under The Taliban www.girltalkhq.com/new-photoboo... @melissacrt.bsky.social #photojournalism #journalism #photography
New Photobook Documents The Resilience Of Women And Girls In Afghanistan Under The Taliban
Kabul, Afghanistan, April 22, 2024. Shahla, 21, is a radio host. “Even laughter was banned. But we fight back, girls call us to say we give them hope. We had a program where girls would laugh on ai…
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I profiled lawyer Katerya Rashevska in @theguardian.com on Ukraine's fight to rescue the children stolen by Russia, with beautiful portrait by @emileducke.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘Law is the only weapon I have’: a Ukrainian lawyer’s campaign to rescue the children stolen by Russia
Though once so despairing she thought of giving up the law for art, Kateryna Rashevska is still pushing for the return of thousands of Ukrainian children abducted by the invaders
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THE VII FOUNDATION: No Woman’s Land: Behind the Scenes Documenting Women’s Rights in Afghanistan open.substack.com/pub/dispatch...? @theviifoundation.bsky.social @melissacrt.bsky.social #photojournalism #journalism #documentary
No Woman’s Land: Behind the Scenes Documenting Women’s Rights in Afghanistan
Kiana Hayeri and Mélissa Cornet reflect on how they made their award-winning story.
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Our talk for the VII Foundation on our reportage about Afghan women's lives under the Taliban is now on their new Youtube channel. To (re-)watch it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj3V... @theviifoundation.bsky.social
Documenting Women’s Rights in Afghanistan, with Kiana Hayeri and Mélissa Cornet
YouTube video by The VII Foundation
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‘The streets of Tbilisi are lined with new cameras. It’s unclear how the algorithm would differentiate between a protester and a passerby: I’ve taken up using side streets to avoid them.’ @melissacrt.bsky.social in Georgia, on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...
Mélissa Cornet | In Tbilisi
Since the disputed elections of October 2024, protesters have gathered daily in front of the Georgian parliament...
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‘After the election commission handed the party its fourth mandate, protesters took to the streets. The authorities responded at first with tear gas and mass detentions, before shifting to cleaner tactics.’ @melissacrt.bsky.social in Georgia, on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...
Mélissa Cornet | In Tbilisi
Since the disputed elections of October 2024, protesters have gathered daily in front of the Georgian parliament...
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SIGAR's final report is out, concluding that the U.S. mission in Afghanistan failed to achieve its core goal of creating a free, stable, and democratic state, despite over $2 trillion in spending and the loss of 2,459 American lives. www.sigar.mil/Portals/147/...
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Ukraine sketchbook from my last trip there, earlier this year
I'll be in Sarajevo next week at the wonderful WARM festival to present our project No Woman's Land. More info on the program: warmfoundation.org/festival/ I'll also be at the Festival des Libertés in October in Brussels: www.festivaldeslibertes.be/2025/fase6?e...
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FESTIVAL Jul 10 2023 WARM Festival 2023 Sarajevo, 10-15 July Jul 4 2022 WARM Festival 2022 Sarajevo, 4-10 July Jul 5 2021 WARM Festival 2021 Sarajevo, 5-10 July Jul 10 2019 WARM Festival 2019 Sarajevo...
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Our project No Woman's Land, documenting Afghan women's lives under the Taliban, and published in the @theguardian.com, won an @amnesty.org International Media Award ! To read the piece: www.theguardian.com/global-devel... @amnestyuk.bsky.social press release: www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releas...
How the Taliban are erasing Afghanistan’s women – photo essay
The journalist Mélissa Cornet and the photographer Kiana Hayeri met more than 100 Afghan girls and women in seven provinces, and found resistance and defiance but also despair
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Our project No Woman’s Land, documenting the lives of Afghan women under the Taliban, won a World Press Photo!
I wrote a behind-the-scenes account of how Kiana and I made our project No Woman's Land happen, interviewing 100+ women in Afghanistan in 2024. Read it on the VII Foundation website: dispatchesviifoundation.substack.com/p/no-womans-...
No Woman’s Land: Behind the Scenes Documenting Women’s Rights in Afghanistan
Kiana Hayeri and Mélissa Cornet reflect on how they made their award-winning story.
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Photojournalism News@pjournalismnews.bsky.social · last yr.THE VII FOUNDATION: No Woman’s Land: Behind the Scenes Documenting Women’s Rights in Afghanistan open.substack.com/pub/dispatch...? @theviifoundation.bsky.social @melissacrt.bsky.social #photojournalism #journalism #documentary
The making of a photobook: after three intense days of editing, No Woman’s Land will soon exist on paper. More info + Kickstarter + website coming on 8 March! We’re very keen to make the project accessible and educational, for schools to use, so a cheap version will come too (and the free website)
The recording of our talk on Documenting Women’s Rights in Afghanistan, for the VII Foundation, is now available on their website. In it, we deep dive behind the scenes on working as a duo, ethics, informed consent, security, and more. To watch it: theviifoundation.org/resource/doc...
Documenting Women’s Rights in Afghanistan, with Kiana Hayeri and Mélissa Cornet
Join us for a talk with journalist Mélissa Cornet and photographer Kiana Hayeri, on their stories covering women's rights in Afghanistan.
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Les photos de notre projet No Woman’s Land sont en couverture de @lemonde.fr — beau travail que de réussir à parler des droits des femmes afghanes
Women's rights in Afghanistan: ICC requests arrest warrants against Taliban Supreme Leader Akhundzada and Taliban Chief Justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani, for their responsibility in the crime of persecution on gender grounds. www.icc-cpi.int/news/stateme...
Statement of ICC Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan KC: Applications for arrest warrants in the situation in Afghanistan
Today, I can announce that my Office has filed two applications for warrants of arrest before Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court in the Situation in Afghanistan. These filings ha...
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As Afghan women experience ever-worsening oppression at the hands of the Taliban. @zahrajoya.bsky.social meets the activists resisting this ‘gender apartheid’. Check out our latest photostory by @melissacrt.bsky.social & Kiana Hayeri: www.chathamhouse.org/publications...
The hidden plight and enduring fight of Afghan women
Banned from much work, high school and speaking in public, women are subject to ever-worsening oppression at the hands of the Taliban. Zahra Joya meets the activists staging small acts of resistance a...
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Fotograaf Kiana Hayeri en journalist Mélissa Cornet wisten tijdens twee bezoeken aan Afghanistan honderd vrouwen en meisjes te spreken. Ze willen laten zien hoe hun leven er nu uitziet. https://buff.ly/4ffazK3
Vrouw zijn kan in Afghanistan alleen nog onder elkaar
In Beeld: Fotograaf Kiana Hayeri en journalist Mélissa Cornet wisten tijdens twee bezoeken aan Afghanistan honderd vrouwen en meisjes te spreken. Ze willen laten zien hoe hun leven er nu uitziet.
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Resistance. Defiance. Despair. Photographer Kiana Hayeri (whose photos feat. in #AnUnfinishedJourney) worked with journalist Melissa Cornet to document the massive changes to Afghan women's lives since the Taliban took power 3 years ago. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
In yet a new ban, Taliban forbid Afghan women from attending training in nursing, midwifery, and other health sectors. Who will take care of the pregnant and sick women and girls in a country where tradition prevents men from doing so?
"Even in provinces where more sympathetic Taliban commanders looked the other way, allowing underground schools to continue [..] women's freedom is still dependent on the decisions & whims of men in power." @melissacrt.bsky.social on erasure of Afghanistan's women www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
How the Taliban are erasing Afghanistan’s women – photo essay
The journalist Mélissa Cornet and the photographer Kiana Hayeri met more than 100 Afghan girls and women in seven provinces, and found resistance and defiance but also despair
theguardian.com
Saturday au festival du @nouvelobs.bsky.social with Giuliano Da Empoli and Cynthia Fleury: "la démocratie au temps des fake news" and "Avec les femmes d’Afghanistan" with @pierrehaski.bsky.social discussing the great exhibition by Kiana Hayeri and @melissacrt.bsky.social
Exhibition: Afghanistan: No Woman's Land // The exhibition by photographers Kiana Hayeri and Mélissa Cornet is showing briefly in Paris. It highlights the severe restrictions imposed on Afghan women and girls under Taliban rule.
Exposition | AFGHANISTAN : NO WOMAN'S LAND par Kiana Hayeri et Mélissa Cornet
Exposition de photographies, dessins, archives au Réfectoire des Cordeliers à Paris. Produite par la Fondation Carmignac, dans le cadre de la 14e édition du Prix Carmignac du photojournalisme. Dans…
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I wrote a slightly more personal essay to accompany Kiana Hayeri's powerful photo essay on Afghan women's lives, for our long-term project No Woman's Land. Here it is: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
How the Taliban are erasing Afghanistan’s women – photo essay
The journalist Mélissa Cornet and the photographer Kiana Hayeri met more than 100 Afghan girls and women in seven provinces, and found resistance and defiance but also despair
theguardian.com
Niche post: if you speak Norwegian (!), here's my latest piece in Panorama on how -- in a regime that tries to deny their humanity -- Afghan girls manage to carve moments of joy and sorority, dancing, playing music, or doing henna, behind closed doors. Link: www.panoramanyheter.no/afghanistan-...
Når øyeblikk av lykke blir opprør
Etter at Taliban kom til makten i august 2021, har situasjonen for jenter og kvinner i Afghanistan bare blitt verre. Å gå en tur, danse med venner og spille musikk utfordrer Talibans mer enn 80 regler...
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Our exhibition with Kiana Hayeri on women's rights in #Afghanistan, No Woman's Land, is open until 18 November at the Réfectoire des Cordeliers in Paris. In the show: photos, sketches, video, as well as collaborative art we made with Afghan teenage girls. Website and book coming in 2025!
