Taliban authorities detain dozens of women in Herat over dress
Taliban authorities in the northwestern Afghan city of Herat have detained dozens of women for failing to comply with the...
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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...
International journalists urged to do more to highlight Taliban treatment of Afghan women
Reporting on Afghanistan has become incredibly difficult, but journalists need to urgently find ways to cover the Taliban’s campaign to...
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,...
Every girl has the right to go to education, says UN, as Afghanistan marks the start of the fifth school year since the ban
“The message is simple: every girl has the right to go to school.” Those were the words posted on X...
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