Voices of
Resistance

An initiative of the Civic Engagement Project (CEP), in collaboration with the Strategic Litigation Project

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Led by Civic Engagement Project, Voices of Resistance is a platform for powerful stories, analysis, and first-hand accounts from those challenging repression and advancing human rights.

Through an editorial partnership with the Atlantic Council’s Strategic Litigation Project, selected articles from this initiative are featured here — amplifying these voices to broader audiences.

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Resistance and Resilience: Lessons from South Africa for Afghanistan’s Fight Against Gender Apartheid

The systemic discrimination and dehumanization that defined the apartheid era in South Africa is recognized by the world as a crime against humanity that must never be allowed to happen...
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How We Women of Afghanistan are Defying Taliban Repression

AFGHANISTAN—In the four years since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, the regime’s atrocities have stripped away every space I once knew—invading both the public and private spheres...
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In the shadow of gender apartheid: Four years of loss and resistance by women in Afghanistan

It has been more than four years since Afghanistan fell to the Taliban. In that time, women and girls have been stripped of their most basic rights, barred from...
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Education as Resistance: How Women in Afghanistan Fight Gender Apartheid Through Solidarity

In today’s Afghanistan, education is no longer just a human right denied; it has become an act of resistance. Since the return of the Taliban In today’s Afghanistan, education...
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