Nilab Hamidi

Researcher, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne; Trials Support Officer, SPHERE NHMRC Centre for Excellence, Department of General Practice, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University

Health & Medicine

Girls forced to act as boys in Afghanistan

The practice of bacha posh tries to circumvent Afghanistan’s rigid gender roles, but it also entrenches them. Girls and women need to be heard as who they are

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