Rahima’s teaching salary is so meagre that sometimes she cannot even afford the fare to work, but her job in an Afghan girls.

Taliban intelligence forces have detained an Uzbek poet in northeast Afghanistan for writing poetry critical of their rule

When Marhaba went to court to seek a divorce she was hoping for a quick end to years of abuse from her violent husband; instead the judge sent her to prison.

she thinks reported her to the authorities, but she references a word often used to justify the control of women.

Last month, mother-of-two Shakila set off from her village in central Afghanistan for the 30 minute trip to the local.

When Kamela applied to divorce her violent husband following 13 years of abuse, she hoped the court in northern Afghanistan.

The lack of media coverage is a stark reflection of just how hard it has become to report in Afghanistan under Taliban.

over the court’s packed meeting hall. In the middle, a petite woman in her early 20s knelt on the floor in front of the judges.

August 15 marks five years since the Taliban seized Afghanistan - five years which have changed the lives of millions of girls and women beyond all recognition.

The Taliban’s supreme leader has issued a decree stating that “the husband is the ruler of the woman, and the woman is obliged to keep her husband happy”.

The stark figures show that since the hardliners seized power in 2021, women have been erased from public life, poverty is forcing hopeless families to marry off their daughters and healthcare is on the brink of failure

August 15 marks five years since the Taliban seized Afghanistan - five years which have changed the lives of millions of girls and women beyond all recognition.

The Taliban have said women should not leave the house without their husband’s permission, warning that the devil lies in wait when a woman ventures outside.

Saadat* has spent five years in hiding since the Taliban seized power, living in constant fear that she could be killed if discovered.

A new book tells the story of the Taliban’s brutal silencing of women and the life of resistance of journalist Zahra Joya

barring women from wearing make-up, hair extensions and perfume and saying the exchange of rings is a Western import forbidden under Islamic law.

most of her patients have chronic conditions that could have been treated successfully if they had been caught much earlier.

The Taliban have barred women entrepreneurs from selling their handicrafts and other artisanal products at a big trade fair in the eastern Afghanistan in Jalalabad city, according to visitors attendin...

The family of an Afghan teenager jailed by the Taliban for five years after refusing to marry an influential tribal figure in his 70s have appealed to the group’s supreme leader for help to secure her...

Taliban forces have arrested the principal of a girls’ school in central Afghanistan after she refused to hand over her mobile phone following a ban on government employees using smartphones, accordin...

The family of a young Afghan woman who vanished in Kabul last month after leaving her home to exercise say they believe she was detained by the Taliban for breaking strict dress rules.

Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders have published new rules on women’s hijab, stating that it must be made of thick material, non-decorative and unperfumed.

“We were all terrified, the children were screaming, the adults were crying,” Hadia told Rukhshana Media.

Taliban forces fire on crowds in Herat, who were protesting at manhandling of women arrested over hijab dress code.

A witness who saw young women being taken away in a separate part of the city reported that the Taliban used violence.

A witness who saw young women being taken away in a separate part of the city reported that the Taliban used violence.

A 31-year-old mountaineer who campaigns for women’s education has become the first Afghan woman to climb Mount Everest, according to climb organisers and her family.

Child marriage appears to have been legally recognised for the first time by thelegitimising child marriage.

Representatives of the Taliban in Herat met with YouTube channel managers on March 31 and told them women were banned from appearing

Tajudeen Oyewale on Thursday, as classrooms in the country reopened for the fifth year since girls were barred from attending secondary school.