Girls in Afghanistan are banned from schools and sport beyond the age of 12 but IOC member has hope for Taliban talks.

Afghan women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 23, 2023. The Taliban Virtue and Vice Ministry had on May 7, 2022, said women in public ...

Afghanistan's International Olympic Committee member Samira Asghari has told AFP that the Taliban authorities must face the stark truth that if they are ever to be accepted internationally they must ...

No school beyond the sixth grade. No traveling without a male guardian. Death by stoning for “moral crimes” such as adultery. In most places, women must cover themselves from head to toe if they leave ...

On the 11th of December 2025, the People’s Tribunal for Women in Afghanistan issued an historic judgement on the gender ...

Australia has just introduced a world-leading sanctions regime against the Taliban, an important but insufficient step as the ...

When the Taliban fell from power in Afghanistan in 2001, women were once again allowed to go to school after being banned since 1996. I, along with World Bank education expert Raja Bentaouet Kattan ...

'Bread and Roses', which largely features footage taken in Afghanistan after the Taliban retook control of the country in 2021, is now streaming on Apple TV+ Rodin Eckenroth/WireImage; Apple TV+ When ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Afghan women cricketers will finally get high-level support in a bid to rejoin international competition after the sport’s world governing body created a taskforce to ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — They wandered through the museum, listening attentively as their guide explained the antiquities in display cabinets. It could have been any tour group, anywhere in the world. But ...

The European Union delegation in Afghanistan said on Thursday, Dec. 5, that Afghanistan’s women continue to shoulder the ...