In August 2021, the world watched as the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan, sweeping away two decades of progress toward democracy, human rights and gender equality. While international ...

Religious schools increasingly offer a range of subjects as the mainstream education ban enters its fourth year.

Until Taliban authorities took power in Afghanistan, women like Fatima were able to freely sell their hair to be made into ...

The Taliban has justified its crackdown on hair sales, stating that it is in line with Islamic values and is necessary to ...

Tired of burkas that cover the face, urban women under the Taliban’s ‘gender apartheid’ have adopted the abaya robe favoured ...

They have gradually erased Afghan women from public space, imposing what the United Nations has called a "gender apartheid". They outlawed the loose headscarves commonly worn by urban women.

As It Happens5:59Former Afghan women's soccer captain fights for team's chance to compete in World Cup Khalida Popal, the former captain of Afghanistan's national women's football team ...

Women have also been barred from parks and gyms, while beauty salons have been shut down ... The unemployed Afghan woman, who now relies almost entirely on charity, stuffs them in a plastic ...

Many players from the Afghanistan women’s team fled the country at the time for fear of persecution after the Taliban took control of the Afghan government. The women’s team has since been ...