When Lina* became one of the few girls from her district in rural Afghanistan to win a place at university,...

But if life was hard before 2021, that was nothing compared to what Hadia faces now. As well as being...

In a quiet alley in western Afghanistan, a middle-aged woman swathed in a hijab is pleading with a dealer to...

Every year for the past decade, Zohra* has spent weeks criss-crossing the mountains of central Afghanistan on foot, braving both...

Nobel peace laureate and activist Malala Yousafzai has condemned the Taliban’s treatment of women in Afghanistan as “gender apartheid”, saying...

In Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, religious schools, the only option left for girls after the shutdown of formal education, have become spaces...

Afghan photographer Homa Mohammadi* braves constant intimidation in the course of her work, once having her camera smashed up by...

Strolling through the autumn streets of Johannesburg in South Africa, it’s refreshing to see the democracy emerging from a long,...

A young woman has died after setting herself on fire in Taywara district of Ghor province in an alleged attempt...

In a remote district of Badakhshan province, the only companions to a woman in labor are usually her family and...