In 2021, dread and despair returned for women in Afghanistan. The Ashraf Ghani-led government, backed by the United States, collapsed after the Taliban seized control of Kabul. With their return came ...

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 ...

The dominant narrative on women in Afghanistan, one that appears fairly regularly in international media, is a story of restrictions, denial, and loss of rights. Under the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate, ...

Recent months have seen several reports of funding cuts and visa withdrawals leaving Afghan women at risk of deportation to Afghanistan - a country where women and girls are subjected to what only can ...

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 impunity for the dire situation of ...

FIFA has sanctioned the establishment of an Afghanistan women’s refugee team which will be able to participate in matches overseen by world football’s governing body. Such a move would see the ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — They wandered through the museum, listening attentively as their guide explained the antiquities in display cabinets. It could have been any tour group, anywhere in the world ...

Today, for millions of young women and girls in Afghanistan, education is not just a right — it is an act of defiance. Since the Taliban regained control in 2021, access to learning has been brutally ...

(New York) – The Taliban have deepened their repression since taking over Afghanistan on August 15, 2021, by intensifying restrictions on the rights of women and girls, detaining journalists, and ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Afghan women cricketers will finally get high-level support in a bid to rejoin international competition after the sport’s world governing body created a taskforce to ...