The United Nations General Assembly is addressing the rights of Afghan women and children, particularly concerning the Taliban's ban on gir...

The International Criminal Court should prosecute Taliban leaders for a crime against humanity for denying education and employment to Afgh...

The police has informed that around 60 girls from Northern Afghanistan were taken to the hospital after they were poisoned. The attack is s...

The ban on the education of Afghan girls and women has resulted in a surge in the risk of early marriage, violence and abuse in the country...

Despite promising a softer rule when they seized power last year, the Taliban have ratcheted up restrictions on all aspects of women's live...

Taliban rulers unexpectedly decided against reopening schools Wednesday to girls above the sixth grade, reneging on a promise and opting to...

As a wary world watches to see the Taliban's policies for women, many older girls in Afghanistan already face disrupted dreams, worried for...

"As I speak to you today, millions of girls of secondary school age are missing out on education for the 27th consecutive day," Abdi said. ...

During the weekend, the education ministry issued a diktat ordering male teachers and students back to secondary school -- but made no ment...

The new government has said that some form of education for girls and women will be permitted, but those parameters have not been clearly d...

"I received a request for their rescue from another England-based NGO, so I wrote to Prime Minister Imran Khan who issued clearance for the...

Dia (10) and Diyana (12), residents of an Afghan enclave in south Delhi, should be learning and playing, but at this tender age, the sister...

After the takeover of Kabul last week, the Taliban have been going house-to-house in Afghanistan, searching for women and girls over the ag...

The actress shared a heartbreaking letter from a young Afghan girl for her first post.

Education is the true key to emancipation of the mind; burkhas, hijabs and niqabs are just superficial impediments, just like skirts and tr...

The decision has been taken on humanitarian grounds and as a goodwill gesture towards Afghanistan.

McCurry had clicked the famous photograph in 1985. He has now offered to help Sharbat Gula who was arrested on Wednesday.