Now living in comparative freedom in Iran, 26-year-old Mahtab Eftekhar describes facing motherhood at 12 and explains why ...

More than 100,000 female students were forced out of higher education institutions after the Taliban suspended women's ...

Afghanistan has dropped off the news agenda, but the violence and oppression continue — and for too many of us Afghan women, ...

On April 23, 2024, the U.N. Security Council heard a new report on sexual violence in conflict (conflict-related sexual ...

With a resurgent Taliban targeting NATO forces ... "honor killings," early and forced marriages, sexual abuse and slavery, the report says. "The security is the big issue," said Suraya Pakzad ...

Taliban leaders have issued over 90 edicts limiting women ... An increasing number of girls are being forced into marriage, often with much older men, and suicide rates among female Afghans are on the ...

The U.S. State Department has given a negative assessment of the media situation in Afghanistan. The report states that the ...

The Taliban's track record of human rights abuses, particularly against women, is well-documented. Reports of public ...

The Oscar-winner and the Nobel laureate have teamed up to make Bread & Roses, a new film about the abuse of women in ...

More than two years have passed since the closure of girls’ schools and the suspension of education for women in Afghanistan, yet there is no sign of reopening educational institutions.