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Tribal elders, Afghan communities and international groups are calling on Taliban authorities to properly investigate a brutal gang rape of...

. The juggling ends and everyone breaks out into claps and cheers. The circus show is a moment of levity...

Being a woman has become tantamount to being a criminal in Afghanistan. The dreams of a generation are being destroyed....

Nine-year-old Hasiba was playing with her older sister one February evening when there was a knock at the family door....

An Afghan educational center is providing free services to girls and women in secret to get international university scholarships, with...

Yalda Sarab no longer writes love poems. These days, she pours herself into tragic poems for women. She says she...

It doesn't matter if the weather is hot or cold, sunny or snowing. What matters is Matin Sediq has a...

Parwana was still in her mother's womb when her parents found out she was a girl. They were disappointed –...

Growing up in Afghanistan, Soraya, 37, lived far from the Taliban’s influence. But their beliefs and practices still reached her...