The UN warns the Taliban is nearing its goal of erasing women from public life in Afghanistan. Since 2021, Afghan women have been squeezed out of education, jobs, travel, and have to abide by strict ...

Afghanistan is facing a near-total digital blackout as the Taliban cut both wired and mobile internet services nationwide. The shutdown, aimed at stopping ‘immoral activities’, has disrupted ...

Four years after players from the Afghanistan women's national team fled their homeland amid the Taliban's takeover, a number ...

The Taliban should end the arbitrary detention, torture, and other ill-treatment of journalists, discriminatory restrictions ...

In Afghanistan today, many women still lack access to even a basic phone or reliable Internet connection, while others face barriers of literacy, affordability, and surveillance.

In Afghanistan, women have become subjected to institutionalized gender apartheid. Since the return of the Taliban to power in August 2021, Afghan women have been confined to their homes and erased ...

Left out here and driven away from there' — this old Dari proverb describes a person who has been rejected from both sides, meaning they can neither stay in the first place nor be accepted in the ...

Afghanistan has one of the highest maternal mortality ... Mateen of Aseel NGO said life-saving assistance for women needed to be accompanied by the necessary professionals and infrastructure to ...

It has some of the world's most severe restrictions on women but that isn't stopping all-female tourist groups from visiting to see Afghanistan for themselves. Despite its "appalling human rights ...

Doncaster, England (CNN) — 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 ...

A devastating magnitude 6.0 earthquake in eastern Afghanistan on August 31 killed more than 2,200 people and injured some 3,600, according to the Taliban authorities. Nearly half a million were ...