The UN agency, UN Women, says it could take another 286 years to close the global gender gaps in legal protections. No ...

Learning medical skills in midwifery and nursing was the only form of higher education left for women in Afghanistan since ...

Following 9/11, former first lady of the US, Laura Bush, said, ‘The fight against terrorism is also a fight for the rights ...

The Taliban continue to weaponize religion and the institution of marriage to annihilate girls’ and women’s personhood and ...

Banned from much work, high school and speaking in public, women are subject to ever-worsening oppression at the hands of the Taliban. Zahra Joya meets the activists staging small acts of resistance ...

OHCHR Spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani described the new directive, which reportedly took effect on Tuesday, as “yet another direct blow” by the de facto authorities against Afghan women and girls. “It ...

Known for her fierce advocacy for women's rights ... a nine-year-old Afghan girl sold into marriage with a 55-year-old man. Navratilova shared the distressing video on her social media on Sunday ...