ZAN TIMES

My Tears Flow as I Look at My Medals: A Sportswoman Mourns Her Lost Career

By ZAN TIMES ● Afghanistan ● April 6, 2023

My love for this sport was so much that I was three months pregnant during our last competition, held in 2021 before the Taliban came to power – I came in fifth. It would be the last time I played.

Zan Times* interview: The UN’s Richard Bennett on human rights abuses, gender apartheid, and the Taliban’s quest for recognition 

By ZAN TIMES ● Afghanistan ● February 24, 2023

Bennett calls the Taliban’s edicts against women including the “absolute erasure” of them from public life to be “irrational.”

Women’s eNews Launches Collaboration with Afghanistan’s Zan Times to Ensure All Voices Are Heard

By ZAN TIMES ● Afghanistan ● February 9, 2023

Zan Times is a women-led, investigative newsroom that covers human rights violations in Afghanistan with a focus on women, the LGBTQ community, and environmental issues.