The plight of Afghan women and girls under Taliban rule continues to demand the world’s attention. The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, observed from November 25 to December 10 ...

With the Taliban's ban on secondary education in its fourth year, some Afghan girls and young women like Saliha are looking for an alternative source of education. According to the United Nations ...

In Afghanistan, women have been silenced through various diktats and oppressive rules by the ... Thereafter, she left for Canada where she continues to advocate for Afghan girls.

And if not for them, maybe things will change for the next generation of Afghan women and girls. There is a spark of hope that maybe soon, maybe within months, maybe within years, the Taliban will ...

A 17-year-old who is not allowed to speak in public in her own country has won a prestigious international award for advocating for the rights of Afghan ... girls” in Afghanistan, where women ...

When Zainab Ferozi saw Afghan ... takeover, women made up 26 percent of public sector workers, a figure that "has effectively decreased to zero", according to UN Women. Girls and women have ...

Recently, the Taliban in Afghanistan forbade Afghan women from praying loudly ... What we want is for the cruelty being endured by women and girls in Afghanistan to be called what it actually ...

It was 2016, and Agha — a Taliban leader imprisoned for abducting three U.N. officials — had been pardoned by then Afghan President Hamid Karzai and turned into a peace negotiator. “We will allow the ...

There is no culture, excuse. The true representatives of that culture are the Afghan women and girls that we've seen in the documentary." The documentary follows three Afghan women who secretly ...

The Italian government announced on Thursday that Sharbat Gula, who in 1985 gained worldwide fame as the green-eyed 'Afghan Girl' image by ... Brillance is a dynamic, women-led, non profit ...