As the world’s focus has shifted to other regions and conflicts — Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war — the ...

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

President Donald Trump issued executive orders that put an end to programs used to help Afghans get to safety in America.

Since the Taliban took power in 2021 and imposed their strict version ... “It’s the start of a new life so the light should ...

He went on to outline the typical problems, “we don’t have electricity, the internet is down, and if the Taliban find out that she is studying online, her life might be in danger ... radio and ...

Boycott would kill off ‘one of the few things that brings happiness’; Plus, ICC told to ‘wake up’ to Afghan women’s plight ...

Under the pretext of Islamic ... ICC warrants against the senior Taliban figures would put the group's "systematic exclusion of women and girls from public life and targeting of LGBT people ...

Since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan again in August 2021, women and girls have been essentially erased from public life. The Taliban government initially presented itself as more ...

Taliban officials have said previously that women’s lives have improved under their rule. Akhundzada said in a 2023 audio message that he wants women to live “comfortable” lives. Behind ...

under article 7(1)(h) of the Rome Statute. The applications follow the litany of restrictions placed by the Taliban on the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan ever since the Taliban took over ...

Several Afghans also have been executed publicly under what the Taliban described as the Islamic ... to private and family life, to free assembly,” said Agnes Callamard, Amnesty’s secretary ...