In Afghanistan, strict Taliban regulations and deeply-rooted patriarchal traditions make it nearly impossible for women to ...

With many care centers shuttered and supplies dwindling, many pregnant women in rural Afghanistan fear they or their babies ...

Chela Noori, the founder and president of the Afghan Women of France organisation, was recently able to travel across ...

Four years ago today, the U.S. military completed its chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. Since then, the Taliban has imposed Islamic law and severely restricted the rights of girls and women. John ...

No school. No work. No speaking outside. No healthcare without an increasingly scarce female provider. No dissent. No justice. This is the horrific reality for women and girls in Afghanistan since the ...

The Taliban's recent crackdown on Afghanistan's beauty salons, following a 2023 ban, forces remaining underground businesses to close, impacting women ...

A 6.0 magnitude earthquake has struck Afghanistan's mountainous eastern region, with authorities saying hundreds of people have been killed. The quake hit at 23:47 local time on Sunday (19:17 GMT) and ...

Driven by necessity, she sought alternatives online, discovering a free computer coding course tailored for Afghan women.

On July 31, 2025, a coalition of civil society organizations announced the launch of the People’s Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan, an initiative to address the ...

Afghanistan is seeing the emergence of local female tour guides, in a country whose Taliban government imposes the world’s harshest restrictions on women and girls.

They wandered through the museum, listening attentively as their guide explained the antiquities in display cabinets. It could have been any tour ...