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The women who stand to lose everything in Afghanistan

Wednesday 11 August 2021

"To see her so shaken brought tears to my eyes. I started crying for the first time during an interview. It never happened before in my career, even in the worst situations. Behind the video camera, my colleague Justine stopped filming. Photographer Adek put down her camera. The despair of Rada had taken hold of the room and gave shape to those of Afghan women," writes Anne Chaon, recently returned from Afghanistan, where she met women fearing for the freedoms won over 20 years, or even their lives, as the Taliban gains ground every day. 

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Dust days

Friday 9 March 2018

"Suddenly all the heads in the stands at a stadium in northern Afghanistan turned and zeroed in on us," writes Anne Chaon, a journalist based in Kabul.

"It’s not that the event was forbidden for women, at least not formally. Simply, Afghan women do not attend buzkashi games -- a full contact horseback sport where men play polo with the carcass of a headless goat or calf." 

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The Ebola dance

Wednesday 19 November 2014

Health workers dance in front of a severely ill Ebola patient at a treatment center run by the Red Cross Society in Kenema, Sierra Leone, on November 15, 2014. "The scene lasted two minutes", said AFP reporters Ann Chaon and Céline Cléry, who witnessed it. "A way to distract the patients — and try to bring some relief to their sorrow and fear. A moment of grace in a world hungry for it, in these dark days of Ebola. And we, too, were grateful for it."

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