Mélissa Cornet

No Woman’s Land: Behind the Scenes Documenting Women’s Rights in Afghanistan Kiana Hayeri and Mélissa Cornet reflect on how they made their award-winning story.

THE VII FOUNDATION: No Woman’s Land: Behind the Scenes Documenting Women’s Rights in Afghanistan open.substack.com/pub/dispatch...? @theviifoundation.bsky.social @melissacrt.bsky.social #photojournalism #journalism #documentary

YouTube video by The VII Foundation Documenting Women’s Rights in Afghanistan, with Kiana Hayeri and Mélissa Cornet

Our talk for the VII Foundation on our reportage about Afghan women's lives under the Taliban is now on their new Youtube channel. To (re-)watch it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj3V...

@theviifoundation.bsky.social

Thrust Into the Line of Fire, Iranians Worry About What Comes Next

"an hourlong bombardment of the notorious Evin prison, killed 80 people including prisoners, social workers and children. Israeli officials justified the attack as a blow against “oppression.” HRW and Amnesty International called it a likely war crime."

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/w...

How Georgia Went From the Vanguard of Democracy to the Front Lines of Autocracy

How Georgia Went From the Vanguard of Democracy to the Front Lines of Autocracy --

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/m...

Mélissa Cornet | In Tbilisi Since the disputed elections of October 2024, protesters have gathered daily in front of the Georgian parliament...

‘After the election commission handed the party its fourth mandate, protesters took to the streets. The authorities responded at first with tear gas and mass detentions, before shifting to cleaner tactics.’

@melissacrt.bsky.social in Georgia, on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...

Mélissa Cornet | In Tbilisi Since the disputed elections of October 2024, protesters have gathered daily in front of the Georgian parliament...

‘The streets of Tbilisi are lined with new cameras. It’s unclear how the algorithm would differentiate between a protester and a passerby: I’ve taken up using side streets to avoid them.’

@melissacrt.bsky.social in Georgia, on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...

Mélissa Cornet | In Tbilisi Since the disputed elections of October 2024, protesters have gathered daily in front of the Georgian parliament...

‘After the election commission handed the party its fourth mandate, protesters took to the streets. The authorities responded at first with tear gas and mass detentions, before shifting to cleaner tactics.’

@melissacrt.bsky.social in Georgia, on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...

Mélissa Cornet | In Tbilisi Since the disputed elections of October 2024, protesters have gathered daily in front of the Georgian parliament...

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'it just eats me alive.’

@melissacrt.bsky.social in Tbilisi for @lrb.co.uk
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...

Beijing and Harbin, July 2025

SIGAR's final report is out, concluding that the U.S. mission in Afghanistan failed to achieve its core goal of creating a free, stable, and democratic state, despite over $2 trillion in spending and the loss of 2,459 American lives.

www.sigar.mil/Portals/147/...

Ukraine sketchbook from my last trip there, earlier this year

Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters

Taliban praise Russia’s ‘brave decision’ to recognise their rule in Afghanistan Islamic leaders, in power since 2021, announce development after talks with Russian ambassador in Kabul

Russia becomes first country to recognise the Taliban

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

A couple crossing the road in Kyiv, with rescuers in the background in a firefighter vehicle, smoke and a residential building behind.

Last night in Kyiv was hell, explosions lasted several hours.
Many times, it felt like this would be our last moments as drones came very close.
Fires broke out across the city. Right now we can't go outside, it is unbreathable, the air is filled with smoke & particles.

📸 Ukraine emergency services

Festival - warmfoundation.org FESTIVAL Jul 10 2023 WARM Festival 2023 Sarajevo, 10-15 July Jul 4 2022 WARM Festival 2022 Sarajevo, 4-10 July Jul 5 2021 WARM Festival 2021 Sarajevo, 5-10 July Jul 10 2019 WARM Festival 2019 Sarajevo...

I'll be in Sarajevo next week at the wonderful WARM festival to present our project No Woman's Land.

More info on the program: warmfoundation.org/festival/

I'll also be at the Festival des Libertés in October in Brussels: www.festivaldeslibertes.be/2025/fase6?e...

Among many other things this is a proliferation nightmare. The lesson learned will be never negotiate with the United States.

The feminist case for treating women’s bodies as instruments for other people’s agendas.

This is a great piece: (can share PDF)

How the Taliban are erasing Afghanistan’s women – photo essay The journalist Mélissa Cornet and the photographer Kiana Hayeri met more than 100 Afghan girls and women in seven provinces, and found resistance and defiance but also despair

Our project No Woman's Land, documenting Afghan women's lives under the Taliban, and published in the @theguardian.com, won an @amnesty.org International Media Award !

To read the piece: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

@amnestyuk.bsky.social press release: www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releas...

Our project No Woman’s Land, documenting the lives of Afghan women under the Taliban, won a World Press Photo!

I wrote a behind-the-scenes account of how Kiana and I made our project No Woman's Land happen, interviewing 100+ women in Afghanistan in 2024.

Read it on the VII Foundation website: dispatchesviifoundation.substack.com/p/no-womans-...

The making of a photobook: after three intense days of editing, No Woman’s Land will soon exist on paper. More info + Kickstarter + website coming on 8 March!

We’re very keen to make the project accessible and educational, for schools to use, so a cheap version will come too (and the free website)

Documenting Women’s Rights in Afghanistan, with Kiana Hayeri and Mélissa Cornet Join us for a talk with journalist Mélissa Cornet and photographer Kiana Hayeri, on their stories covering women's rights in Afghanistan.

The recording of our talk on Documenting Women’s Rights in Afghanistan, for the VII Foundation, is now available on their website. In it, we deep dive behind the scenes on working as a duo, ethics, informed consent, security, and more.

To watch it: theviifoundation.org/resource/doc...

Les photos de notre projet No Woman’s Land sont en couverture de @lemonde.fr — beau travail que de réussir à parler des droits des femmes afghanes

Statement of ICC Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan KC: Applications for arrest warrants in the situation in Afghanistan Today, I can announce that my Office has filed two applications for warrants of arrest before Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court in the Situation in Afghanistan. These filings ha...

Women's rights in Afghanistan:

ICC requests arrest warrants against Taliban Supreme Leader Akhundzada and Taliban Chief Justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani, for their responsibility in the crime of persecution on gender grounds.

www.icc-cpi.int/news/stateme...

The hidden plight and enduring fight of Afghan women Banned from much work, high school and speaking in public, women are subject to ever-worsening oppression at the hands of the Taliban. Zahra Joya meets the activists staging small acts of resistance a...

As Afghan women experience ever-worsening oppression at the hands of the Taliban. @zahrajoya.bsky.social meets the activists resisting this ‘gender apartheid’.

Check out our latest photostory by @melissacrt.bsky.social & Kiana Hayeri: www.chathamhouse.org/publications...

Vrouw zijn kan in Afghanistan alleen nog onder elkaar In Beeld: Fotograaf Kiana Hayeri en journalist Mélissa Cornet wisten tijdens twee bezoeken aan Afghanistan honderd vrouwen en meisjes te spreken. Ze willen laten zien hoe hun leven er nu uitziet.

Fotograaf Kiana Hayeri en journalist Mélissa Cornet wisten tijdens twee bezoeken aan Afghanistan honderd vrouwen en meisjes te spreken. Ze willen laten zien hoe hun leven er nu uitziet. https://buff.ly/4ffazK3

Resistance. Defiance. Despair. Photographer Kiana Hayeri (whose photos feat. in #AnUnfinishedJourney) worked with journalist Melissa Cornet to document the massive changes to Afghan women's lives since the Taliban took power 3 years ago. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Thank you!!

Fantastic! Thank you!! I'm looking into it right now