With women banned from most jobs in Afghanistan, an embroidery boutique run by 22-year-old Rahima Alavi is a surprising and ...

These two female filmmakers express the injustice they've experienced in their home countries in contrasting genres: a ...

Banned from education, a clandestine reading circle meets every week to pour over novels by Abbas Maroufi, Zoya Pirzad and Ernest Hemingway ...

A new penal code has been published by Taliban leaders in Afghanistan, which will legalise acts of physical punishment against women.

The criminal code is reportedly called De Mahakumu Jazaai Osulnama and was distributed across courts in Afghanistan.

From underground hair salons to selling makeup and jewelry online, a report by The Washington Post details the daily struggles that women in Afghanistan face. From asking clients to park several ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Afghan woman walks past a beauty salon in Kabul ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Since seizing power in 2021, Afghanistan's Taliban ...

Afghanistan’s new laws, signed by the Taliban leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, give animals ‘more rights’ than women as they legalise domestic violence.

FIFA is facing fresh calls to officially recognise the Afghanistan women’s football team. Members of the national side, as quoted in a report published by the Sport & Rights Alliance (SRA) on Tuesday, ...

“We urge the United Nations to bring Afghan women to the negotiating table, to be their own advocates and create their own destiny, before it is too late.” March marked the fourth year that Afghan ...

This is the first time Rashid has made a statement in support of a women's team after previously pleading for women's rights ...