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.

In this edition, we focus on Afghanistan, which recently marked the fifth anniversary of the Taliban's return to power. Since then, the exclusion of women and girls has become normalised, with the gov...

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.

Now She's Telling Her Own.

Before long, the old me had vanished.

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.

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

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5 Jahre Taliban: Gibt es noch Hoffnung für die Frauen Afghanistans?

5 Jahre Taliban: Gibt es noch Hoffnung für die Frauen Afghanistans?

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.

The journalist on Afghanistan’s future—and the cost of exile

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...

“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.

Up to 70% of girls may be in early or forced marriages but law now makes divorce impossible if husbands disagree

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