The Taliban issued a message on International Women’s Day, saying Afghan women live in security with their rights protected, even as the U.N. condemned ongoing employment and education bans. The ...

The diversity of Afghanistan is vast and varied, linguistically, ethnically and geographically. Yet the restrictions of the ...

September 19 marks four years since Afghan girls were barred from secondary schooling in Afghanistan. What began as a “temporary measure” in September 2021 has hardened into the most systematic denial ...

Afghanistan is now the only country in the world where girls are prohibited from going to school beyond the primary level.

“We urge the United Nations to bring Afghan women to the negotiating table, to be their own advocates and create their own destiny, before it is too late.” March marked the fourth year that Afghan ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — One after the other, the opportunities vanished. Like so many other Afghan women, Sodaba could do little but watch as her country’s new Taliban government imposed a ...

Female activists who fled from Afghanistan to Pakistan say their lives are in danger once again as Islamabad intensifies its ...

Five young women are staring anxiously at a laptop. This is the call they’ve long been waiting for. A flurry of mixed emotions takes over as they each learn they have been selected by FIFA for the ...