What Afghans Want the Rest of the World to Know
Hajera gave birth to her daughter, Sarah, in Kabul two weeks after the Taliban took over Afghanistan last summer. Hajera is 35 and worked as a government economist. She and her husband already had two sons and were happy to be welcoming a daughter. But they soon lost their jobs, and the Taliban erased the rights women had gained over the previous two decades.An Afghan women’s-rights activist had connected me with Hajera, who was too afraid to share her last name.