The author is an Afghanistan-based female journalist, trained with Finnish support before the Taliban take-over. Her identity ...

A complete cultural ban has meant musical experts must stop playing or risk their lives. We explore the impact on those in ...

An Afghan women’s cricket team is set to play its first match in years. It could put pressure on the International Cricket ...

Cricketer Firooza Amiri says her team will "represent millions of women in Afghanistan who are denied their rights” when the ...

Under Muhammad Yunus’s leadership, Bangladesh is facing backlash over changes to school textbooks, sparking fears of a shift ...

Hafiz Ziaullah Hashimi, spokesperson for the ministry, stated on Monday, January 27 that the reports about a conditional ...

As women in Afghanistan have been effectively separated, segregated and removed from the public square, locking them in the vicious circle of gender apartheid, the international community must ...

We focus on how Afghanistan under the Taliban, has literally become hell on earth for women and girls. Annette Young meets Fawzia Koofi, a women's rights activist and a former member of the Afghan ...

The Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have imposed strict Islamic laws on women, severely restricting their education and work opportunities. The International Criminal Court seeks arrest warrants ...

In a special edition, we focus on how Afghanistan under the Taliban ... The two talk about the need for international efforts to end gender apartheid and the role of international sporting ...

including gender persecution. These are the first applications for arrest warrants in the situation of Afghanistan at the ICC, and the OTP indicated that "further applications for other senior members ...