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

Child marriage appears to have been legally recognised for the first time by the Taliban in Afghanistan, as activists say...

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

By Zuhal Azad, Raha Azad Before the Taliban returned to power in 2021, women were a key part of the...

Reporting on Afghanistan has become incredibly difficult, but journalists need to urgently find ways to cover the Taliban’s campaign to...

Women seeking tubal ligation have been turned away from a major hospital in Afghanistan, in the latest evidence that the...

After darkness falls, when the market closes and the crowds thin out, Sodaba puts on her brother’s clothes, takes her bicycle,...

“The message is simple: every girl has the right to go to school.” Those were the words posted on X...

On the gate to the Omid addiction treatment centre, there was a long list of survivors’ names. Everyone in the...

A midwife has been stabbed to death in Afghanistan, police and local media said, becoming the latest female medical worker...