In Afghanistan, Afghan Women’s Freedom Lantern Movement and the Afghan Women’s Cry Movement held a protest in Kabul against ...

Afghanistan's supreme leader and Taliban chief Hibatullah Akhundzada issued a mandate over the weekend ordering women to cover up fully, ideally with the traditional all-covering burqa. The diktat was ...

Members of the Afghan Young Women for Change took to the streets of Kabul Saturday to denounce violence against women, AFP reported. The protest march, which saw close to 30 women holding placards ...

The documentary from Shakiba Adil and Elina Hirvonen, premiering at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, features clandestinely shot mobile ...

A new morality law is full of restrictions. No neckties for men. Photos cannot be reproduced. The harshest rules are for women — who are singing... Afghan women sing to protest a law that orders them ...

For many Afghan women, especially those in conservative rural areas of the country, little has changed since the Taliban ...

There is something profoundly defiant, almost incendiary, about Afghan women writers. When the Taliban regained control of Kabul in August 2021, images of women protesting in the streets and girls ...

ON International Women’s Day, the global language of equality and empowerment often feels distant from the lived reality of ...

Afghan women writers defy suppression by the Taliban, using literature as a means of resistance. Despite bans and restrictions, they tell compelling stories that reclaim agency. Through collective ...