Afghan crisis deepens: Taliban rule tightens grip on women and girls; UN warns of worsening plight

Since the Taliban's resurgence in Afghanistan, women's rights and access to education have suffered dramatically. Millions of ...
Digital Journal

Two women prison doctors among five killed in Afghan bombing

Two women doctors working at an Afghan prison with hundreds of Taliban inmates were among five people killed Tuesday in a bomb attack, officials said, in the latest of several targeted killings in ...
Global Issues

Afghanistan’s Stolen Peace: The Women Who Refuse to Be Silenced

When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August 2021, Zahra Nader was pursuing a doctorate in Women and Gender studies ...
BBC

Afghan women tell the BBC their lives are unrecognisable after five years of Taliban rule

Five years on from the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, women and girls have told the BBC their lives are unrecognisable under the rule of the regime. The hard-line Islamist group has been eroding the ...
Irish ExaminerOpinion

We must stand with the Afghan women resisting the Taliban

Roshana Dadgar, an Afghan woman living in exile in Pakistan, from where she highlights the brutality of the Taliban regime ...
PBS

Afghan women defy Taliban to educate girls in secret schools

It’s been nearly five years since the Taliban banned education for girls older than 12 in Afghanistan. Every day seems to bring a new law limiting them, but Afghan women are pushing back. Special ...
Digital Journal

Two women prison doctors among five killed in Afghan bombing

Two women doctors working at an Afghan prison with hundreds of Taliban inmates were among five people killed Tuesday by a bomb stuck to their car, officials said. The blast happened in the south of ...