The documentary from Shakiba Adil and Elina Hirvonen, premiering at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, features clandestinely shot mobile ...

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

Women in Afghanistan are nearly four times less likely than men to have access to formal justice mechanisms, according to ...

Long before 9/11, the stoning and whipping of Afghan women and their exclusion from education was a cause of outrage globally ...

Comprised of 119 articles, the 60-page Decree No. 12 lays out penalties for women who visit their relatives without their husband's permission, and allows husbands and the heads of households to ...

In Kabul and other cities, the closure of girls’ secondary schools and women’s university access reshapes daily life—from ...

Every morning in Kabul, several cars make their way across the Afghan capital to pick up the producers of Radio Begum. The young women do not travel to the office on their own as moving around the ...

UN Women says 90% of female-headed households in Afghanistan lack sufficient food, highlighting growing hardship for women ...

Afghanistan's Taliban government Friday accused Pakistan's military of targeting civilian homes in overnight airstrikes in Kabul and the southern province of Kandahar, saying women and children were ...

When the Taliban were in power in Afghanistan, they shuttered girls’ schools, segregated many aspects of public life, including the workplace, and prevented women from leaving their homes unless ...

As a Greek woman in Afghanistan, I decided to live among ordinary Afghans to get a feel of their lives, concerns, and dreams ...