For many Afghan women, especially those in conservative rural areas of the country, little has changed since the Taliban ...

An interview with Sana Atef, a reporter with the Zan Times who covers the lives and work of women in Afghanistan.

To mark International Women's Day, a human rights defender has anonymously shared her story.

They feel imprisoned “like a bird whose wings have been torn off” but struggle on, defiant in their own way.Five Afghan women talked to AFP about the ...

WASHINGTON — The images from Kabul, Afghanistan have been stunning over the last 72 hours. From Afghans clinging to airplanes on tarmacs to women being forced to adapt to life under Taliban rule, the ...

Amid a dire humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, discussions at the U.N. Security Council highlighted challenges posed by the Taliban's rule. U.S. concerns focus on the effectiveness of international ...

Human rights violations are a global scourge that have engulfed scores of countries on every continent. It appears as though violating human rights is a game in which governments of all national ...

Maryam has worked as an online interpreter since the Taliban banned women from most jobs in Afghanistan. But her livelihood is under threat after the hard-line Islamist group last week shut down ...