In August 2021, the world watched as the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan, sweeping away two decades of progress toward democracy, human rights, and gender equality. While international ...

In a crowded control centre, surrounded by dozens of TV screens, the Taliban's police force proudly shows off its newly-acquired network of 90,000 CCTV cameras - used to watch over the day-to-day ...

Activists are calling on the Canadian government and universities to let Afghan women studying under U.S.-funded scholarships ...

Women with signs demanding equal rights, work and education, participate in a protest against gender apartheid in Afghanistan ...

“When I go out, I’m forced to dress like a Muslim so that I can’t be identified as a Sikh,” she said, in reference to the Taliban’s order that all women must wear the all-encompassing ...

The Taliban’s so-called “morality police” enforce bans on Western-style haircuts, music, and women traveling without a male ...

Over 120 Afghan women studying in Qatar and Oman face potential deportation to Afghanistan due to cuts in funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

Three years after arriving in Australia as a refugee, Setara Amiri is one of the stars of an Australian movie about to be ...

As a Greek woman in Afghanistan, I decided to live among ordinary Afghans to get a feel about their lives, worries and dreams ...

The Taliban government has not been formally recognised ... to monitor women's adherence to strict rules around the way they dress in public Fariba*, a young graduate who lives with her parents ...