On the 11th of December 2025, the People’s Tribunal for Women in Afghanistan issued an historic judgement on the gender ...

UN Urges Kabul To Lift Ban On Women Working In Afghanistan Offices. The United Nations has warned that Afghanistan's women ...

Girls in Afghanistan are banned from schools and sport beyond the age of 12 but IOC member has hope for Taliban talks.

Afghanistan's International Olympic Committee member Samira Asghari has told AFP that the Taliban authorities must face the ...

The dominant narrative on women in Afghanistan, one that appears fairly regularly in international media, is a story of restrictions, denial, and loss of rights. Under the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate, ...

The World Health Organization has urged that all people in Afghanistan have access to healthcare, warning restrictions on women’s ...

It has been four years since the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan on Aug 15, 2021. Since that day, women’s and children’s rights have been curtailed, and, so to speak, the lands and homes they ...

More than 600 books, many of them written by women, are being purged, based on a contention that they conflict with Sharia principles. By Pranav Baskar The Taliban government is purging books written ...

A people’s tribunal in Spain has begun a three-day hearing to examine a complaint filed by a coalition of four Afghan civil society organizations against the Taliban’s treatment of women in ...

It has some of the world's most severe restrictions on women but that isn't stopping all-female tourist groups from visiting to see Afghanistan for themselves. Despite its "appalling human rights ...

In 2014, agriculture professor Sophia Wilcox at the University of Maryland launched the Women in Afghanistan (WIA) program to teach Afghan women how to farm. It was a seed of hope among barren soil ...

August 15 holds a solemn place in the collective memory of the Afghan people as a symbol of state collapse, the onset of darkness, and the failure of the international conscience. On this day, a ...