The Taliban have taken multiple steps to walk back women's rights including forbidding education for girls beyond grade six ...

The Afghan Ministry of Economy on Sunday reiterated its call for all non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the country to ...

The Taliban’s ban on obstetrics and nursing studies has not only closed for Afghan women one of the last remaining doors for ...

UN human rights chief urges Taliban to reverse ban on Afghan women working for NGOs to prevent gender apartheid.

The UN's Volker Turk has repeated an appeal to Afghanistan's Taliban to revoke the "deeply discriminatory decree." An Afghan ministry recently told NGOs they would lose their licenses if they ...

Vantage with Palki Sharma The Taliban have banned windows overlooking places "usually used by women," claiming to prevent ...

KABUL: The Taliban rulers of Afghanistan have imposed a ban on the construction of windows that may allow the visibility of ...

Buildings should not have windows looking into places where women could be sitting or standing, Taliban leader orders ...

Last month two of the men's team called on the Taliban to lift the ban on women training as doctors and nurses, which had been "one of the last remaining loopholes" available under the overall ban ...

I never wanted to study midwifery,' a 20-year-old woman from Afghanistan's eastern province of Nangarhar told me. 'But after ...