Dr Forough Amin is the founder of Iranian Women in NZ, a charitable organisation dedicated to supporting Iranian women living here.

OPINION: Recently, I came across a post on the UN Women’s Instagram page about Afghan women and their resistance to the Taliban’s denial of their fundamental rights.

The post was heart-warming; however, the picture accompanying the post was deeply worrying to me: a colourful illustration that captured my attention at first glance, but on a second look, something seemed not quite right. The picture showed tens of Afghan women; all with hijab. Not even a single woman appeared without hijab…