Many women in Afghanistan continue to fight for their freedom – on the streets or underground.
Women and girls must wear burqas and are not allowed to attend school after the sixth grade or university. However, Samia Walid, who fled to Germany two years ago, tells that women’s rights activists would secretly run underground schools for girls.

In mid-August, two days before the anniversary of the Taliban takeover, more than 30 women took to the streets in Kabul that morning. They wanted to march in front of the Ministry of Education to demonstrate, “For bread, work and freedom.” Former Taliban fighters, now acting as police in Kabul, shot into the air, arrested some women and also international journalists, and released them only in the evening. In Afghanistan, scenes like this are now part of everyday life.