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The Taliban has banned women's beauty salons in Kabul and other provinces in Afghanistan.
80 primary school girls in Afghanistan were poisoned and hospitalized in two separate incidents in the northern province of Sar-e-Pul.
Three-month-old Tayabullah is quiet and motionless. His mother Nigar moves the oxygen pipe away from his nose and puts a finger below his nostrils to check if she can feel him breathing.
Violation of women’s rights,” the women chanted during the march, which lasted no longer than 10 minutes in the capital.
The UN Security Council on Thursday passed a resolution unanimously urging the Taliban to lift all restrictions on female citizens including women working for the world body in Afghanistan. The resolution was passed without any discussio...
The resolution, unanimously adopted by all 15 Council members, said the ban announced in early April "undermines human rights and humanitarian principles."
The UN study found that families were pushed by financial strains during the pandemic to marry their daughters young in order to reduce costs at home.
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) had said earlier in the day that UN women employees had been blocked from work in eastern Nangarhar province.
Actor Nazanin Boniadi on Wednesday urged the world to back the protests in her native Iran calling for women’s rights and political change, saying despots fear nothing “more than a free and politically active woman.”
With the Taliban government's banning of women from universities in Afghanistan, Iran's repression of the Mahsa Amini protests, new US restrictions on abortion rights and the Ukraine war's impact on women, there are many reasons to protest.
A delegation led by the highest-ranking woman at the United Nations urged the Taliban during a four-day visit to Afghanistan that ended Friday to reverse their crackdown on women and girls. Some Taliban officials were more open to restor...
A former Afghan MP and her bodyguard have been shot dead at her home in the capital Kabul, Afghan police have said.
A senior UN official in Afghanistan met on Sunday the deputy prime minister of the Taliban-led government to discuss a ban on women working for non-governmental groups that Afghan authorities have announced in a series of measures rollin...
Marwa was just a few months away from becoming the first woman in her Afghan family to go to university. Instead, she will watch, achingly, as her brother goes without her.
Afghanistan's Taliban-run administration on Saturday ordered all local and foreign NGOs to stop female employees from working, in a move the United Nations said would hit humanitarian operations just as winter grips a country already in ...
The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs led the international condemnation of the Taliban leadership in Afghanistan to ban women from accessing higher education. The United States, the United Nations and the United Kingdom have also expre...
Saudi Arabia expressed its incredulity and regret that the Afghani government is standing in the way of girls’ college education, urging it to withdraw such a decision.
Hundreds took to the streets Friday in Iran’s restive southeast, footage shared by human rights groups showed, beginning a fourth month of protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death.
Indonesia hosted on Thursday the first international conference to garner support for Afghan women’s education.
Protesters will march from Park Lane to Westminster on Sunday
This month the Taliban barred women from entering parks, funfairs, gyms and public baths. Schools for teenage girls have also been shuttered across most of the country.
The protesters claimed that all the evicted students were women in a move that comes as the Taliban has increasingly restricted girls' access to education.
Nicole Aunapu Mann has waited nine long years for her chance to go into space.