A nine-year-old tissue seller in Herat says Taliban forces have repeatedly detained her while she works on the streets, as her family struggles with unemployment and poverty after returning from Iran.

The World Health Organization (WHO) says 198 pneumonia-related deaths were recorded in Afghanistan in July this year.

The Afghanistan Women’s Movement Network has condemned Aisha Wahab’s position on the need for diplomacy and relations with Afghanistan under Taliban rule, saying that moving towards formal relations while women’s rights are being suppressed would contribute to the normalisation of the Taliban.

CIVICUS Monitor says women protesters in Afghanistan mainly hold their protests in homes and other enclosed spaces to reduce the risk of identification, but even these secret protests expose them to surveillance, arbitrary arrest and violence.