Rights
New York: The situation for women is so desperate in Afghanistan that they are committing suicide at a rate of one or two every day, the Human Rights Council has heard. more
Afghanistan: Taliban orders women to stay home; cover up in public

New York: The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) issued a statement of deep concern on Saturday in response to an announcement made by the Taliban de facto authorities saying th ...

Afghanistan: Taliban passes decree which forces women to wear burqa

Kabul: The Taliban administration of Afghanistan has issued yet another tough decree by which women of the country need to wear burqa in public.

Afghanistan: Women can only enter parks for three days in a week, directs Taliban in new order

Kabul: The Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan issued yet another bizarre diktat by which women can only  go to parks three d ...

Taliban’s backtracking on girls’ education, ‘deeply damaging’

New York: Following a U-turn over re-opening girls’ secondary schools in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the UN human rights chief shared her “profound frustration and disappointmen ...

Women must be given space to lead if Afghanistan is to find peace: Bachelet

New York: Whether as peacebuilders, humanitarians or pivotal actors courageously pushing their communities forward, Afghan women must be given the space to lead if the country is to find ...

Six women’s rights activists still missing in Afghanistan

New York: The UN human rights office OHCHR, has said it is very alarmed over the continued disappearance of six people who were abducted in the Afghan capital Kabul, in connection with re ...

Experts decry measures to ‘steadily erase’ Afghan women and girls from public life

New York: Taliban leaders in Afghanistan are institutionalizing large scale and systematic gender-based discrimination and violence against women and girls, independent UN human rights ex ...

Afghanistan: Girls at increasing risk of child marriage

New York:The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has received credible reports of families in Afghanistan offering daughters as young as 20 days old for future marriage in retur ...

Seven members of only Jewish family of Afghanistan leave Taliban-controlled country

Kabul: The only Jewish community members of Afghanistan have left the country recently, a month after the Afghanistan government was formed by the Taliban forces, media reports said on Fr ...