Afghan women wear hijab on their own, neither they have been forced to do so, nor the ministry of vice and virtue mistreated them. This is just propaganda and far from the reality. ...

Afghan Olympic cyclist Fariba Hashimi was 15 when she entered her first cycling race. It was also the first day she ever rode a bike. "It was not seen as a woman's sport," she told Business ...

Recent arrests of women in Kabul #Afghanistan for "bad hijab", confirmed by #Taliban, regrettably signifies further restrictions on women's freedom of expression and undermines other rights.

FILE - Afghan women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 23, 2023. The Taliban have arrested women for the first time in Kabul for ...

An Afghan Olympian once snuck into cycling races in a hijab. ... The pair led the field in a 35-mile road cycling competition for Afghan women exiles in Switzerland in 2022.

Taliban terrorists swept through Kabul, arresting girls as young as 16 for violating hijab mandates, labeling them "infidels" and in some cases, lashing them on their legs and feet. Another check ...

As I write this article, the Afghan women’s box is again in the making to serve a new era. The “Afghan women” of the last 20 years were becoming empowered, getting an education, leading households and ...

“Afghan women wear hijab of their own accord,” he said on X. “They don’t need to be forced. The Vice and Virtue Ministry hasn’t forced anyone [to wear hijab] ...

Hijab And The Right To Choose: Afghan Women Speak Out Women in Afghanistan face restrictions that men do not. But the global debate around the hijab and Muslim women’s rights is inextricably ...

Strict laws forbidding men from mixing with women who are strangers led to a larger female death toll Women died in an earthquake in Afghanistan because they were afraid to leave their homes ...

An Afghan refugee girl walks past a registration centre with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) signage, at the Takhta Pul district in Kandahar province on April 7, 2025 ...

HOUSTON — Due to an incident inside a school named after American folk hero Paul Revere, one family's American dream is being tested. "I heard about the U.S.," said an Afghan father we agreed ...