The Taliban forbids girls from going to school past 6th grade. The Citizenry brand is supporting 2,500 girls as they attend ...

Some girls were secretly educated in their homes by parents and teachers; others attended underground schools. At one time, education in Afghanistan was very highly regarded. Until the mid-1990s ...

Pursuing a legal career has become impossible for women in the country. Some of those women told Index their stories ...

A year after the dramatic day, much has changed in Afghanistan ... from stalling for a generation of young women and underground schools in homes have spring up. A year ago, thousands of Afghans ...

Funding cuts to Afghanistan are the biggest threat to helping the country's women, the chief of a top aid agency has warned. Jan Egeland, the secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, said ...