Since seizing power in August 2021, the Taliban have effectively sought to erase women from public life. An intricate web of laws and policies have denied women access to education, the labor ...

The Taliban issued a message on International Women’s Day, saying Afghan women live in security with their rights protected, even as the U.N. condemned ongoing employment and education bans.

With humble beginnings that started out in a church basement in 1985, Deborah's Place has become a beacon and safe haven for the city's most vulnerable.

An Afghan women’s cricket team is set to play its first match in years. It could put pressure on the International Cricket Council to do more for Afghan women.

As the world looks ahead to 2025, a group of young Afghan women brave great personal risk to share their hopes and dreams for the new year, one they'd love to live free from Taliban rule.

Afghan women artists are playing a vital role in the women’s movement resisting Taliban abuses, and their contributions—and art—should be recognized, Human Rights Watch said today in a new ...

What we want is for the cruelty being endured by women and girls in Afghanistan to be called what it actually is: gender apartheid, and a crime against humanity.

Women in Afghanistan have been through it all. From the 1930s told the early 1990s they had their freedoms, becoming well educated and professionals. Then as the fundamentalist Taliban took over ...

Afghan women are turning to social media, singing in protest against new Taliban laws banning their voices in public. They sing to prove they still exist.

The U.S. says Afghanistan's Taliban rulers are trying to "complete the erasure of women" from society, but Afghan women refuse to be erased quietly.

We must join with Afghan women, international legal practitioners and human rights activists to advocate for United Nations member states to act and codify gender apartheid in international law.

Three years after the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan, women have been silenced and terror groups are regaining a foothold.