A senior Taliban figure has urged the group's leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy. Sher Abbas ...

The European Union (EU) has condemned the Taliban's reported decision to suspend medical education for women and girls in Afghanistan, calling it a severe violation of human rights. Media reports ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A big part of the country’s economic progress in this period can be attributed to women. While the overall average return on ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — For six hours every day after school, Nahideh works in a cemetery, collecting water from a nearby shrine to sell to mourners visiting loved ones’ graves. She dreams of ...

When the Taliban seized power again after the US left Afghanistan, opportunities for women started to vanish, and 24-year-old Sodaba could do nothing but watch as the regime increased its control over ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — One after the other, the opportunities vanished. Like so many other Afghan women, Sodaba could do little but watch as her country’s new Taliban government imposed a ...

Members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe recently signed a declaration noting the dire situation of Afghan women and girls, some of whom are in Central Asia receiving education.

More than 80 Afghan women who fled Taliban rule to pursue higher education in Oman now face imminent deportation after the Trump administration abruptly cut funding for their scholarships. The ...

September 19 marks four years since Afghan girls were barred from secondary schooling in Afghanistan. What began as a “temporary measure” in September 2021 has hardened into the most systematic denial ...

Afghanistan is the only country in the world that bans girls from attending school beyond the primary level. Education advocate Somaya Faruqi is working with Education Cannot Wait and UNICEF to ...

A senior Taliban figure has urged the group's leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy. Sher Abbas ...