U.N. officials urged Afghan authorities to rescind the decree, which also criminalizes criticism of the de facto leadership ...

In Kabul and other cities, the closure of girls’ secondary schools and women’s university access reshapes daily life—from ...

Every morning in Kabul, several cars make their way across the Afghan capital to pick up the producers of Radio Begum. The young women do not travel to the office on their own as moving around the ...

Long before 9/11, the stoning and whipping of Afghan women and their exclusion from education was a cause of outrage globally ...

They feel imprisoned "like a bird whose wings have been torn off" but struggle on, defiant in their own way. "I feel like ...

A new criminal code has been passed by Taliban leaders in Afghanistan, which equates female citizens to 'slaves'. Titled the 'De Mahakumu Jazaai Osulnama', the 90-page legislation was signed by the ...

UN member states should do more to protect the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in an oral statement on Thursday at the 61st Session of the UN Human Rights ...

In 2021, dread and despair returned for women in Afghanistan. The Ashraf Ghani-led government, backed by the United States, collapsed after the Taliban seized control of Kabul. With their return came ...

The UN body said that from late evening on February 26 to March 5, it verified and recorded 185 civilian casualties in ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — They wandered through the museum, listening attentively as their guide explained the antiquities in display cabinets. It could have been any tour group, anywhere in the world ...