Afghan Women Protest Removal of Photos from National ID Cards
A move by the Taliban to remove women’s images from national identity cards on request has sparked protests from human...
How One Afghan Woman is Taking on Child Hunger
Every morning, Rana Tawakol* spends an hour and a half walking to the clinic where she works in a remote...
Hundreds confirmed dead as earthquake hits eastern Afghanistan
More than 800 people have been killed in an earthquake in a remote mountainous part of eastern Afghanistan, a Taliban...
Taliban launch crackdown on Afghanistan’s secret beauty salons
The Taliban have issued an order targeting underground beauty salons operating in secret across Afghanistan, warning the women running them that...
Taliban abuses risk being normalised in Afghanistan, campaigners warn
When the Taliban were toppled from power in 2001, many women in Afghanistan kept wearing the burqa, even though they...
“We have nowhere to go” – Afghan families forced out of Iran face poverty and destitution
In a corner of a large park in the ancient Afghan city of Herat, a young woman sits and rocks...
Two more arrested in Afghan media crackdown
The Taliban say they have arrested two people in Afghanistan for dubbing foreign television series for payment in violation of...
Taliban forces using electric shocks on Afghan women over dress
Taliban forces are administering electric shocks to women over breaches of a hijab mandate so strict it even requires them...
ICC issues warrant for Taliban’s supreme leader for persecution of women
The international criminal court has issued arrest warrants for two senior Taliban leaders, accusing them of crimes against humanity for the persecution...
Taliban arrest Afghan media workers over promotion of feminism
The Taliban say they have arrested two employees of an Afghan cultural organisation that makes short films about life in...
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