The ICC has confirmed that displaced Afghan women cricketers will receive significant engagement opportunities at upcoming global events, including the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup in India and Sri ...

Zarghuna Safai*, a 20-year-old resident of Kabul, was a second-semester student at a local medical institute when the Taliban barred women and girls from studying in medical training centres across ...

Get ready to cope” was the message from an aid worker to women returning to Taliban rule in Afghanistan after their expulsion ...

A long-term Afghan resident of Japan has set up a free language school to help her more newly arrived countrywomen stay ...

The Taliban-led government has shut down almost all women's shelters — the last safe places for victims of domestic violence ...

Afghan women have demanded a seat at the table if direct negotiations take place. Mr. Ghani has announced a loya jirga, a traditional gathering of Afghans, for March 17 to discuss the peace process.

Time to panic: Lives of 500 Afghan women and children are at stake as time runs out We have worked hard for 11 days nonstop to get even a few from our group out of Afghanistan, and not one has ...

One of the women honored for her courage at the US State Department on Wednesday made a personal appeal to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to safeguard women’s rights in Afghanistan amid an ...

NPR's A Martínez checks back in with Mahbooba Seraj, founder of the Afghan Women's Network, about the mood in Afghanistan as the last of the U.S. troops left the country.

Afghan women, youths, activists and elders gather at a rally to support peace talks and the republic government in Kabul, Afghanistan, on March 29, 2021. Haroon Sabawoon/Anadolu Agency via Getty ...

Over the last 24 hours, Afghan women, journalists, human rights advocates and former translators for the U.S. military have flooded U.S.-based refugee groups with desperate messages seeking a way ...

Many Afghan men believe in women's rights. But they're afraid to speak out : Goats and Soda Men rarely speak out to protest the Taliban's stripping away of the rights of girls and women.