Special Coverage

These are the stories of three women who have all been detained by Taliban forces and subjected to torture. It...

In the history of human societies, there has been oppression of women. But none so systemic with their complete exclusion...

In two years of Taliban rule in Afghanistan, women’s freedoms have been systematically removed, excluding them from almost all sectors...

Shima Forugh* was in 10th grade at school when she decided she would join the Afghan army. It had been...

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

Life for the Jogi community has never been easy in Afghanistan. But under the Taliban, their challenges have increased. Driven...

The Taliban have issued nearly forty decrees and orders related to controlling the behaviour and movement of women in the...

Several ethnically Pashtun residents who live in the border area of Gilan district, Ghazni province, have launched a legal case...

Hazara female university students say some lecturers are failing them unjustly just because they belong to the Hazara Shia community.

The employees of the only treatment center for female drug addicts in Kandahar quit their jobs after they weren’t paid...