"Come, O sky, weep with me"

Banning women from studying at medical institutes in Afghanistan is femicide in action—a slow, calculated policy that condemns women to die, one by one.

Somewhere in Badakhshan, on the morning of 3rd December 2024, young women gathered outside their medical institute, unaware of the decree that had been issued just hours earlier in Kabul. By the time they reached the gates, the Taliban’s decision had already been implemented. They were told to go home. Videos began appearing on X and other social media …