Afghan Women

Gunmen shoot dead Afghan woman ex-politician

Nabizada, 32, hailed from the eastern province of Nangarhar, and was elected as a member of parliament from Kabul in 2018.

US, UN warn Taliban ban on female NGO staff could disrupt aid delivery

Top US diplomat Blinken says Taliban decision could be "devastating for the Afghan people" while UN says most of its activities are carried out by NGOs it contracts and could be impacted.

Afghans protest after dozens killed in Kabul college attack

A suicide bomber attack on an education centre in western Kabul has left at least 100 people killed and injured, most of them young women.

UN warns US asset freezes worsen Afghan women's suffering

The United States blocked billions of dollars of central bank assets made up in part of aid money for the country accumulated over decades after the Taliban took over.

Mapping a path to democratising Afghanistan post-Taliban takeover

Afghans deserve a democratic system, one that is localised to them.

Taliban-backed women's rally demands West unfreeze Afghanistan's assets

Around 100 Afghan women have gathered in front of the abandoned US embassy in Kabul, calling on Washington to open access to $9.5 billion in Afghanistan central bank assets.

Taliban crackdown forces Afghan women activists into hiding

The Taliban has launched a series of raids on women's rights activists, forcing them to change safe houses daily to avoid arrest, according to activists.

Taliban forces 'pepper-spray' women demanding rights in Kabul protest

Protesters who gathered near Kabul University to demand "equality and justice", have said they were dispersed by Taliban fighters who arrived at the scene in several vehicles.

Taliban rules out trips for Afghan women unless escorted by male relative

Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice issues guidance restricting women from embarking on distances longer than 72 kilometers if unaccompanied by a male relative.

Afghan women seek rights, unfreezing of funds as starvation risk grows

Dozens of women rally in biting cold in capital Kabul, demanding "food, careers and freedom" as well as access to more than $9 billion of Afghan central bank assets largely held in the US.

Karzai 'invited' Afghan Taliban to Kabul after Ghani fled in secret

Ex-Afghan leader Hamid Karzai says he invited the Taliban insurgents into the capital Kabul on August 15 so that "the city doesn't fall into chaos," following a covert departure of Ashraf Ghani and his team from the country.

Taliban bans forced marriages in Afghanistan

The decree centres on marriage and widows' rights, stating "no one can force women to marry by coercion or pressure" and that a widow is entitled to a share of her husband's inheritance.