Afghan women

For Zahra Hussaini, the Taliban’s ban on women attending universities in Afghanistan meant the end of her goal of becoming a doctor. She is currently pursuing her medical education in Britain. “Everything changed after I moved...

Dennis Francis, the president of the UN General Assembly, encouraged the Afghan government on Thursday to rethink its decision to bar women and girls from receiving a quality education. According to Francis, Afghan women and girls...

An activist reported that a small group of Afghan women protested defiantly against a Taliban decree barring them from universities on Thursday in Kabul, and that several of them were detained. The Taliban’s minister of higher...

During a visit to Washington on Monday, Malala Yousafzai, a human rights activist who was shot by the Pakistani Taliban in 2012, urged for increased US support for Afghan girls and women. “Afghanistan is currently the...

As the Taliban continues to overrun major Afghan cities like Herat and Kandahar, many Afghan women are worried about their future under Islamist fundamentalist rule if the group takes control of the country. If the Taliban...

News Hour: A new TV channel dedicated to women is set to begin broadcasting in Afghanistan, the first of its kind in a country whose media industry, like many areas of society, remains dominated by men....