Adorned in makeup, fake breasts and bells, Jawed whirls around middle-aged men at Kabul’s underground bacha bazi, or “boy play” parties, where the former child sex slave finds freedom of ...

“The women in Afghanistan are being slowly erased from society, from life, from everything.” Since the Taliban takeover, other marginalised groups have begun to fear for their rights, and ...

The U.N. has asked for $4.4 billion in aid to get food and clean water to those who need it most in Afghanistan. What is life like for women now in Afghanistan? Women's rights advocates took to ...

Afghanistan has had a tumultuous recent past ... Women were essentially invisible in public life, imprisoned in their homes. In Kabul, residents were ordered to cover their ground and first-floor ...

In 2000, Afghanistan was hit by a serious drought and famine and Nakamura realized that medical aid alone was not enough to solve the country's problems. He began focusing on building irrigation ...

The BBC spent the day with women across Afghanistan to understand what life is like under the Taliban government since it took power in 2021 Taliban decrees seek to silence women in public ...