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Women presenters on Afghanistan's leading news channels went on air on Sunday with their faces covered, a day after defying a Taliban order to conceal their appearance on television....
Players from Afghanistan's national women's football team competed in a local league match in Australia on Sunday for the first time since fleeing the hardline Taliban. The result was...
The Taliban's ban on girls' education won't last forever, Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai said on Saturday, emphasising that Afghan women now know what it is to be "empowered." The...
Gulf Today Report As students return to universities across Afghanistan this month, law major Waheeda Bayat will not be among them. The 24-year-old was looking forward to resuming her...
Kabul University, among Afghanistan’s oldest and most revered institutions of higher education, reopened on Saturday for the first time since the Taliban takeover six months ago. Men and women...
Gulf Today Report A group of UN human rights experts have warned against the Taliban's attempts to "steadily erase women and girls from public life", the media reported. The...
Afghan farmer Abdul Qaher cannot remember a worse drought. Unable to feed his four children after losing his harvest, he took the drastic decision to sell his possessions and...
Women and girls without a close male relative accompanying them are banned from entering coffee shops in Afghanistan's Herat province, Raha Press reported. Sheikh Azizi Ur Rahman Al-Mohajer, the...
Married off at seven to a man old enough to be her great-grandfather, Fatema endured rapes, beatings and starvation until she could take no more and tried to kill...
In a sprawling settlement of mud brick huts in western Afghanistan housing people displaced by drought and war, a woman is fighting to save her daughter. Aziz Gul’s husband...
