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 ...

While international headlines have since moved on to other crises, millions of Afghan women and girls continue to live under increasingly restrictive policies that have systematically stripped away ...

Despite the dystopian levels of repression, Afghan women continue to show remarkable resilience. Denied access to public life, they are increasingly turning to the online sphere, where they have ...

Overnight, Afghan women were driven out of classrooms, forced out of workplaces, and robbed of even the smallest freedoms. My colleague Marzia* – once a fearless project manager running ...

Kabul (AFP) – Until Taliban authorities took power in Afghanistan, women like Fatima were able ... The unemployed Afghan woman, who now relies almost entirely on charity, stuffs them in a ...

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. Sign up here. The women's team has ...

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Many players from the Afghanistan women's team fled the country for fear of persecution when the Taliban took control of the Afghan government. The women's team has since been unable to compete ...