On July 31, 2025, a coalition of civil society organizations announced the launch of the People’s Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan, an initiative to address the impunity for the dire situation of ...

The United Nations warned that up to 30% of staff in Afghanistan’s women-led organisations could be laid off due to severe funding shortages.

In Afghanistan, where sweeping restrictions have pushed most women out of public life, thousands are refusing to give up on ...

In recent years, several countries—including Croatia, Malta, and others—have recognized femicide as a distinct crime. The Italian government and parliament also took this step, acknowledging that ...

When we talk about global education rights in 2025, one stark reality remains unthinkable. Afghanistan stands out tragically as the only country in the world where secondary and higher education is ...

The dominant narrative on women in Afghanistan, one that appears fairly regularly in international media, is a story of restrictions, denial, and loss of rights. Under the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate, ...

In Afghanistan, women have become subjected to institutionalized gender apartheid. Since the return of the Taliban to power in August 2021, Afghan women have been confined to their homes and erased ...

On September 15, 2025, Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada announced the shutdown of fiber-optic internet across Afghanistan. The ban was implemented the next day in northern Afghanistan’s Balkh ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — They wandered through the museum, listening attentively as their guide explained the antiquities in display cabinets. It could have been any tour group, anywhere in the world ...

The activist read aloud a letter from a 15-year-old Afghan girl. The United States must do more to support Afghan women and girls and their right to education and work, human rights activist Malala ...

It has some of the world's most severe restrictions on women but that isn't stopping all-female tourist groups from visiting to see Afghanistan for themselves. Despite its "appalling human rights ...