On this day, António Guterres, the UN Secretary-General, called on everyone to work to eliminate violence against women. November 25 is the International Day...
Tag - Women's rights in Afghanistan
90% of those killed in the October 7 earthquake in Afghanistan were women and children, the UN said. This may be due to the strict restrictions imposed by the...
Hundreds of Afghans who risked their lives to work with the UK in Afghanistan and fled the Taliban are now stuck in neighbouring Pakistan as they wait to be...
“After the Taliban shut universities for women, my only hope was to get a scholarship which would help me study abroad,” says 20-year-old Afghan...
The Taliban government have banned women from visiting the Band-e-Amir national park in Bamiyan province. Afghanistan’s acting minister of virtue and...
“We are going to allow women to study and work within our framework. Women are going to be very active in our society,” the Taliban announced in...
Two years ago, the Taliban swept into the Afghan capital, Kabul, as foreign forces hastily completed their withdrawal. On taking power, the new administration...
Two years since the Taliban swept into power in Afghanistan, not a single country has formally recognised their rule. Even engaging with the Taliban government...
The Taliban’s treatment of women and girls in Afghanistan is a “crime against humanity”, Gordon Brown has told the BBC. The former prime...
Taliban’s supreme leader says the status of Afghanistan’s women as ‘free and dignified human beings’ has been restored. The supreme leader of the Taliban has...
