Rights for women deteriorating four years after Taliban takeover in Afghanistan

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

Viral Video Claiming Taliban Banned Girls’ Education a Myth as Influencers Flock to Afghanistan

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

Taliban penal code legalizes slavery, places women below animals, expert tells 'Post'

Under the Taliban’s penal code, which includes 119 articles, published on January 7, 2026, the penalty for animal abuse outweighs that of a serious case of domestic violence.

Since 2021, rule by rule: How the Taliban have erased women from public life

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 challenge of medical access in rural Afghanistan: 'Before the clinic was set up, we used to give birth at home, and three or four women died every month'

French photographer Elise Blanchard visited doctors, nurses and patients in Afghanistan's rural areas. After decades of war and under Taliban rule, women have faced extreme insecurity when it comes to ...
ABC News

Some 4 years after fleeing Afghanistan, a group of refugees returns to international competition

Some four years after players from the Afghanistan women’s national team fled their homeland amid the Taliban’s takeover, a number of the teammates are representing their country once more in an ...
Yahoo

Afghanistan earthquake exposes Western inaction and new risks for women

In the wake of a series of earthquakes that have devastated eastern Afghanistan, the humanitarian response remains critically underfunded, with Western donors slow to act and gender-based restrictions ...
Reuters

We're still here: Afghan women refugees find freedom, voice through football

BURTON UPON TRENT, England, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Elaha Safdari was 17 and had just earned her maiden call-up as a goalkeeper for Afghanistan's women's football team when she was forced to flee Kabul ...
Yahoo

Did restrictions on women workers hamper Afghanistan’s earthquake response?

A camp in Khas Kunar, eastern Afghanistan, for people displaced after the earthquake [Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera] A devastating magnitude 6.0 earthquake in eastern Afghanistan on August 31 killed more ...
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Four Years On, UN Says Taliban Close To 'Erasing' Afghan Women From Public Life

The UN warns the Taliban is nearing its goal of erasing women from public life in Afghanistan. Since 2021, Afghan women have been squeezed out of education, jobs, travel, and have to abide by strict ...
Jurist

‘We Need to Lead Our Own Narrative, Based on the Will of the People of Afghanistan’ — Former MP Fawzia Koofi Envisions a Post-Taliban Future

Fawzia Koofi has survived assassination attempts, navigated Afghanistan’s turbulent political landscape, and negotiated directly with the Taliban. As a three-time elected member of Afghanistan’s ...
WPLG

Some 4 years after fleeing Afghanistan, a group of refugees returns to international competition

Afghanistan Women's Refugee Team Members of Afghan Women United soccer team gather for a team talk during a training session ahead of their first international tournament since fleeing their country, ...