The Taliban has codified slavery and formalized a class-based justice system in Afghanistan through a newly approved criminal ...

According to UNICEF, 2.2 million girls are currently deprived of their right to secondary education, with hundreds of ...

Khadija Ahmadzada was detained for being in "violation" of rules "regarding women's sports gyms", a Taliban spokesman said.

The punchline, experts say, is that the most viral “proof” wasn’t new. Kabul-based editor Ali M. Latifi says a widely shared ...

The Taliban’s new criminal code in Afghanistan has legalised slavery and granted mullahs legal immunity. Here is more about ...

It’s been more than four years since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan - and according to human rights organisations, ...

Afghanistan's International Olympic Committee member Samira Asghari has told AFP that the Taliban authorities need to realise that if they are ever to be accepted internationally they must respect the ...

Since the Taliban's return in August 2021, Afghan women's basic freedoms have been systematically curtailed, transforming them into privileges. Girls are barred from secondary education and ...

The Taliban reportedly barred women journalists from attending a press event of visiting foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in India, drawing anger from a wide section of Indian reporters, activists, ...

Letter: Dr Carol Mann says the world is silent while women in Afghanistan face a bleak future, in response to an article on the Taliban’s birth control ban ...

Afghanistan's IOC member Samira Asghari, left, pictured in Kabul in 2011 with former US golfer Eddie Bullock during an introductory lesson for a group of Afghan children [Musadeq Sadeq/AP] Afghanistan ...

As earthquakes devastated parts of Afghanistan in late August, Taliban officials asked aid agencies to send more female health workers to assist female survivors. They also briefly barred female U.N.