Since retaking power, the Taliban has largely excluded women from public life. Girls are barred from secondary schools and ...

The Taliban are tightening the screws on women's clothing, shooting at protesters and ordering even their own officials to stop using smartphones. Behind the regime's omnipresent control, there are ...

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Afghanistan's minister in charge of vice and virtue defended on Monday the crackdown on women's dress code in the western ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban representatives have held unprecedented meetings with a large delegation of Afghan women in Norway’s capital this week, an apparently incremental step in efforts to ...

The protest followed the arrests of dozens of women for alleged dress code violation in the Afghan city of Herat.

“My team-mates are my sisters. Our dream is to play together again, standing side by side.” In June 2021, Fatima Foladi was a rising football star in Afghanistan when she scored against Tajikistan in ...

The warrants – the first ever on charges of gender persecution – are being hailed as an “important vindication and acknowledgement of the rights of Afghan women and girls.” But will they improve the ...

The Taliban regime has transformed courts and state institutions into tools for enforcing decrees that intensify the ...

The Taliban say they will close all national and foreign nongovernmental groups in Afghanistan employing women, the latest crackdown on women's rights since they took power in August 2021. The ...

Amid rising anti‑immigration rhetoric across Europe, the decision to engage with the Taliban signals a profound shift in how the EU balances security and human rights ...