Globally, 122 million girls are out of school, according to the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).  Of those, 2.5 million are banned from education in Afghanistan.Somaya ...

The Taliban suspended the operation of Afghanistan’s only nationwide women’s radio station after raiding its premises on ...

One of the few officials in Afghanistan’s Taliban government to support reversing the ban on girls’ education appears to have ...

Four Afghan graduate students are among the first women to pursue degrees at the University of New Haven under a new ...

The author is an Afghanistan-based female journalist, trained with Finnish support before the Taliban take-over. Her identity ...

Voicing concerns over the situation of girls in Afghanistan, Nobel Peace Prize laureate said the country's policies do not reflect the teachings of Islam. Malala Yousafzai said the Afghan women and ...

Afghanistan's Taliban authorities raided well-known ... broadcasting educational programmes from Paris to help Afghan girls ...

For Afghan women, who feel deserted by the international community as their lives have been crushed under the brutal rule of the Taliban, there may finally be a potential avenue for justice.

Shakoofa Khalili was waiting for her husband to return home with bread from the market when she heard their eight-year-old ...

The watchdog for U.S. assistance to Afghanistan says the Taliban have no legal right to billions of dollars in funds set aside to help Afghan people ...