Women with signs demanding equal rights, work and education, participate in a protest against gender apartheid in Afghanistan ...

Afghan women's freedom of expression is severely ... The Taliban impose a strict dress code, requiring women to cover their faces completely in public. Failure to comply can result in arrest ...

Afghan women’s rights activists counter that the Quran does not ban women from getting educated and imposes far fewer rules about proper dress than the ones mandated by the Taliban. Many of the ...

The Taliban’s so-called “morality police” enforce bans on Western-style haircuts, music, and women traveling without a male ...