Women!For too long, women have been seen through the lens rather than behind it — visible, yet rarely heard. But from the ...

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

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".

I work in education, and I love my job more than anything in the world. They banned me as an Afghan woman, saying female aid workers in Afghanistan aren’t necessary. I was shocked. Outraged.

She's a young woman who has zero chance of pursuing a college degree in ... And all this makes me wonder, why won't the ...

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 ...

Mohammadi's death, which is still under investigation more than two years later, has had a disastrous impact on her Afghan family, relatives said, adding they are now refugees in a Central Asian ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

An American woman was freed by the Taliban after she, two British nationals and their Afghan translator were detained in Afghanistan earlier this year, according to a source with knowledge of the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — An American woman detained for weeks in Afghanistan ... that Hall was taken to the Qatari Embassy in Kabul, thhe Afghan capital, and was in good health, and that arrangements ...