Voice | ‘I’m not a girl, I’m an athlete’
Despite all odds, in just one year, Patima Ayshalova has become one of Daghestan’s top boxers.
Voice | ‘I have finally accepted myself’ — an Ingush woman’s coming-of-age tale
For one Ingush woman, growing up in Ingushetia meant struggling with ‘restrictive’ traditions.
Voice | The bitterness of the Kvankhidatli salt — the women salt miners of Daghestan
In the mountain village of Kvankhidatli, women recall ‘going to the salt’ since the beginning of the 20th century.
Voice | ‘I’m a second wife and I don’t care what you think’
A 35-year-old woman from Makhachkala tells Daptar that becoming a second wife is a dream come true.
‘If she goes out — her relatives will kill her’
Men who kill their female relatives over ‘immoral behaviour’ are rarely brought to justice.
‘I was fourteen when I was kidnapped’
A story from Chechnya of a young woman’s kidnap, forced marriage, and escape.
![[Voice from Daghestan] Leyla Gamzatova, foster mother](https://oc-media.org/app/uploads/2019/12/daptar-1.jpg)
![[Voice from Daghestan] ‘I can’t get divorced. I suffer for my children and my parents’](https://oc-media.org/app/uploads/2019/12/Prichinyi-depressii-768x512.jpg)
![[Voice from Chechnya] Twenty years with a kidnapper](https://oc-media.org/app/uploads/2019/12/20-years.jpg)
