ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Since seizing power in 2021, Afghanistan's Taliban administration has rolled back hard-fought rights won ...

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

Although Afghan women and girls have made strides in education, the economy, health care, politics, and broader civil society since the 2001 U.S.-led intervention, these advances remain fragile.

Citing the words of Malala Yousafzai, human rights advocate and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, the report reminds us that “If you are a girl in Afghanistan, the Taliban has decided your future for you.

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 are banning women’s beauty salons in Afghanistan, a government spokesman said Tuesday. It’s the latest curb on the rights and freedoms of Afghan women and girls, following edicts barring ...

An Afghan women's group is welcoming the decision by the International Criminal Court to arrest Taliban leaders for their ...

Since taking power in 2021, Taliban leaders have issued numerous decrees preventing women and girls in Afghanistan from ... "When I worked in a beauty salon, it was good," she said.