Recent months have seen several reports of funding cuts and visa withdrawals leaving Afghan women at risk of deportation to ...

But the 20-year-old Afghan woman could not defy her country’s Taliban rulers. They have not just banned all sports for women and girls, they have actively intimidated and harassed those who once ...

An Afghan woman and her husband have won the right to stay in the UK after a judge found she would not be adequately treated for her back pain under Taliban rule. Lailuma Bahadri, 63, was unable ...

A Pakistani woman married to an Afghan citizen filed a petition in the Peshawar High Court on Thursday challenging the ...

An Afghan woman who worked on women's rights projects with Western governments has had her asylum claim rejected by the Home Office. Officials told her she faces "no risk" from the Taliban if returned ...

She's a young woman who has zero chance of pursuing a college degree in Afghanistan ... And all this makes me wonder, why won't the authorities of the world allow Afghan girls to study?" Ruchi Kumar ...

Though Bakhtari is the only female Afghan ambassador still standing, she is not alone as a woman working through diplomatic channels for the interests of the old Afghan republic. At the Herat ...

An Afghan teacher and a jailed lawyer from Tajikistan on Tuesday won the Martin Ennals Award, one of the world's most prestigious rights prizes, with the jury hailing their "exceptional courage".

ISLAMABAD: An Afghan woman journalist, Farishta Sadeed, was picked up by authorities from her residence in Sector B-17 on Monday night and taken to a detention facility for deportation ...

which deems homosexuality forbidden and a woman’s place to be in the home, which is why Afghan women are required to have a male chaperone if they wish to leave the house and travel on their own ...