The nonprofit group Ladies Let's Talk offers free basic English classes for female refugees from Afghanistan, the first step ...

Women's health has also suffered due to ... Some recite the Quran. Many wear traditional Afghan dress, while others wear the Taliban's required burka. But they sing to prove they exist.

Posing in a pink hijab in front of a window, 14-year-old Muska will soon be married "in exchange for a well and some solar ...

Wilson Center Fellow Gaisu Yari reflects on the outcomes of the All Women Summit in Albania, examines the various avenues being utilized to hold the Taliban accountable for their violation of women’s ...

Women's rights in Afghanistan have always been a battleground, but this small community, who fled from Afghanistan to Woking ...

In a new escalation of restrictions on women, Taliban official Khalid Hanafi, the minister for the propagation of virtue and prevention of vice, announced that adult women in Afghanistan are now ...

Women are also prohibited from making eye contact with men. This runs against Afghan tradition. Traditional Afghan attire for women is brilliantly colored, elaborately decorated, with long sleeves ...

gyms and salons and no leaving home if not covered from head to toe in Islamic dress. Today, Afghanistan is the most restrictive country in the world for women, and it’s only getting worse.

Earlier this year, Norway’s deputy foreign minister, Andreas Kravik, published a rather ambitious opinion piece in Al Jazeera ...

The Afghan T20I captain and his brothers ... vice and promoting virtue,” which require women to cover their bodies and faces fully with thick clothing in public. Under these new regulations ...

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that gender and nationality alone are “sufficient” for a country to grant asylum to Afghan ... dress codes, the requirement for women to have ...

Yulduz and Farib Hashimi, sisters from Afghanistan, will embody this sentiment when they cycle together in the women’s road race on Sunday ... They wore loose clothing and sunglasses to disguise their ...