Anthropologist Ashraf Ghani—Afghanistan’s last president—demonstrates that local sharia courts rarely introduced barbaric Taliban-style punishments when adjudicating cases involving women.

A senior Taliban figure has urged the group's leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no ...

Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders have announced the closure of all national and international NGOs that currently employ women. The latest crackdown comes two years after Taliban officials issued a ...

"Your life becomes a prison." Since the August 2021 takeover ... which has made life difficult for girls and women" in Afghanistan, the report said. For Bamyani, she believes the current situation ...

The Taliban say they will close all national and foreign nongovernmental groups in Afghanistan employing women. It comes two years after they told NGOs to suspend the employment of Afghan women ...

The Taliban says it will close all national and foreign nongovernmental groups in Afghanistan employing women. It comes two years after they told NGOs to suspend the employment of Afghan women ...

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai decried the state of women’s rights in Taliban-led Afghanistan as “gender ...

The women knew their lives were at risk ... leaders call players to congratulate them after big wins. Afghanistan is a prison, says Ms Hashimi. Now, in Australia, she can feel the sun on her ...

Afghanistan’s Taliban leadership has issued a new decree banning the construction of windows in residential buildings that overlook areas commonly used by women, such as courtyards, kitchens ...

Afghanistan has conjured another image since the Taliban takeover: something akin to a prison. The country has become notorious for its suffocating restrictions on women, which have essentially ...