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

“Living in Afghanistan is incredibly painful for us as women. Afghanistan is forgotten ... Women who defy the new rules will ...

Throughout the changing political landscape of Afghanistan in the last fifty years, women have been campaigning for their rights and made some gains but the issue has also been exploited by different ...

Walking through the Kabul Female Prison and Detention Center in Afghanistan, women are taking a few moments to speak about their lives – the challenges they face, what they need most now and what they ...

The issue was published on 12 December 2024. After three years of Taliban rule, nobody really believed women could be erased further from public life in Afghanistan. “But the Taliban found another way ...

Karim Khan said that a crime against humanity was being committed by top officials against “Afghan women and girls, as well ...

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

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s Prison Administration Authority said Sunday in its annual report that currently about 23,000 people are in prison in the country, of which 1,000 are women and 150 ...

While gender apartheid is not an international crime yet, the topic has been receiving some attention, especially as the oppression of women and girls in Afghanistan and Iran is ever-growing and ...

The Taliban's 2021 takeover in Afghanistan was a disaster for women's rights, causing an almost complete reversal of the hard-won human rights progress over previous decades. Our latest reports show ...