The BBC spends the day with women across Afghanistan to understand what their lives look like under the Taliban government.

The author is an Afghanistan-based female journalist, trained with Finnish support before the Taliban take-over. Her identity is withheld for security reasons Mar 5 2025 (IPS) - Zainab and Mursal, two ...

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 ...

Women in Afghanistan are living in one of the cruellest regimes on earth. But a movement is stirring at a grassroots level, says Shabnam Nasimi, and every sewing machine used in a back room, every ...

American citizen Faye Hall has been released by the Taliban. An American woman freed by the Taliban in Afghanistan celebrated her release, in a video shared Saturday by US President Donald Trump ...

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, is making ...

It is about 15:00 in London, and 19:30 in Kabul, where the sun has set and the women who have been speaking to us today have broken their fasts with their families. These women - who come from all ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The European Union (EU) was joined by several countries Wednesday in a declaration whereby the international community vows to closely monitor the situation of women and girls in Afghanistan after ...