The Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have ordered female patients, caretakers and staff to wear a burka – a full Islamic ...

Women not covered from head to toe are being prevented from entering public health facilities in western Afghanistan. The ...

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

Today, I run a rug business that has invested more than $1 million to strengthen the economic position of Afghan artisans.

Women in Afghanistan are being forced to undergo so-called virginity tests, more than two years after a law requiring consent ...

Five months after Taliban supporters smashed up her restaurant, Afghan entrepreneur Laila Haidari opened a secret craft ...

While the world moves from one breaking news story to the next, the voices and lives of Afghan women are quietly disappearing ...

Manoozh Noori said she "wanted to die" when the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021. Noori had defied family ...

“When I step on to the pitch everything else is automatically erased from my mind,” says the captain of Afghan Women United, ...

In the 21st century, women across much of the world enjoy the freedom to study, work, and travel independently. Yet, in some ...

Time magazine has generated some controversy with its cover, an image of a young Afghan woman disfigured under Taliban orders for fleeing her in-laws, alongside the coverline "What Happens If We Leave ...

Afghan players fled the country in 2021 after the Taliban banned women's sports. Their return to international competition ...