According to United Nations independent experts, during the one year since the collapse of the previous government of Afghanistan women and girls have been under “systematic oppression” in what constitutes an attempt to erase them from public life. The humanitarian and economic crises in the country have worsened due to political uncertainty and an increasingly unstable security situation, as well as the decline in national and international investment and the freezing of international development assistance. This situation has harmed millions and pushed the population, and in particular already vulnerable and marginalised groups, into poverty and extreme social hardship. Despite many security risks, human rights activists, civil society organisations, and women-led groups continue to resist in Afghanistan and abroad – they raise their voices and represent Afghans, whose rights are violated on a daily basis.