Mother appeals for release of girl jailed for refusing to wed Taliban ally
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...
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Young Afghan woman disappears in Kabul while exercising with “improper hijab”
The family of a young Afghan woman who vanished in Kabul last month after leaving her home to exercise say...
Terror at sea: Afghan mother risks life for daughters’ future
Just weeks before their traumatic experience late last year, 16 Afghans, including a mother and two children, drowned off Turkey’s...
A jailed teenager and an abused wife: the Afghan women trapped by discriminatory laws
Last month, the Taliban issued a new decree on marriage that makes it almost impossible for a woman to get...
Zakiya Ahmad becomes first Afghan woman to climb Everest
A 31-year-old mountaineer who campaigns for women’s education has become the first Afghan woman to climb Mount Everest, according to...
Taliban ‘legitimising child marriage’ with new edict, activists warn
Child marriage appears to have been legally recognised for the first time by the Taliban in Afghanistan, as activists say...
Taliban YouTube ban silences Afghan women actors
Representatives of the Taliban in Herat met with YouTube channel managers on March 31 and told them women were banned...
‘I can’t even say my own name’: How women journalists in Afghanistan have been silenced
By Zuhal Azad, Raha Azad Before the Taliban returned to power in 2021, women were a key part of the...
Taliban ban sterilisation for Afghan women, even as maternal mortality rises
Women seeking tubal ligation have been turned away from a major hospital in Afghanistan, in the latest evidence that the...
‘Conquering the streets’ – how one young Afghan woman keeps her Olympic cycling dream alive
After darkness falls, when the market closes and the crowds thin out, Sodaba puts on her brother’s clothes, takes her bicycle,...
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