A worsening malnutrition crisis is having dire effects on women and girls in Afghanistan who are failed by the international ...

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 ...

There are moments in everyone's life when it feels as though everything has come to an end—overwhelmed by pressure, stress, ...

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 ...

In Afghanistan, around 22 million people need humanitarian assistance, and over 11 million of them are children.

High on a hill in the west of the Afghan capital, Kabul, behind a steel gate topped with barbed wire, lies a place few locals speak of, and even fewer visit. The women's wing of a mental health centre ...

The recent earthquake in Afghanistan has laid bare the country’s worsening women’s health crisis and demonstrated how restrictive Taliban laws and collapsed infrastructure left women without access to ...

Among Afghans, there is a saying: “A woman can only be defeated by a woman.” In today’s Afghanistan, this expression takes on a painfully literal meaning. With women and girls barred from schools, ...

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 2014, agriculture professor Sophia Wilcox at the University of Maryland launched the Women in Afghanistan (WIA) program to teach Afghan women how to farm. It was a seed of hope among barren soil ...

More than 600 books, many of them written by women, are being purged, based on a contention that they conflict with Sharia principles. By Pranav Baskar The Taliban government is purging books written ...