Around nine months before the Taliban took over, Afghanistan formed its first national women’s cricket team, with 25 players.

Women bear the heaviest burden of the Taliban's gender apartheid policies. But they have negative impacts on men, too. The ...

A new directive from the Taliban bans women from studying dentistry, nursing and midwifery. The group, which took over the ...

Jennifer Lawrence produced 'Bread and Roses', a documentary following women in Afghanistan as the Taliban retook control of ...

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

Women in Afghanistan have been banned from training to become midwives in the latest crackdown unveiled by the Taliban.

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 ...

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

The State Department on Wednesday condemned the Taliban’s newest order preventing women from studying medical courses, citing ...

For Saja, studying nursing at a healthcare institute in Kabul was her last lifeline to make something of herself after women ...

The Taliban's bloody takeover of Afghanistan in 2021 effectively ended women's cricket in the war-torn country and has ...