"Believing in the existence of hope gives you the strength to resist," Turkish writer-director Gözde Kural says about her ...

A woman says she was given an electric shock by police when she stood her ground as officers challenged the way she was ...

Horrified by the Taliban's strict dress codes for female students, an Afghanistan historian rallied women to share photos of themselves wearing traditional Afghan dresses. It's a step the women ...

'Afghanistan is a country of colour': Women show traditional dress in contrast to Taliban's black niqab Online protests staged against the introduction of new, all-black niqab that completely ...

CA has signed a partnership with UNICEF Australia to promote the foundation's campaign aimed at gender equality, while supporting female Afghanistan refugees ...

In societies where people are primarily defined by their occupation or caste, rather than as individuals, dress codes, or sumptuary laws as they were generally known, seemed natural.

When Fawzia Amini worked as a senior judge in Afghanistan's Supreme Court, she presided over cases of violent crimes against women, hearing harrowing and heart-breaking accounts of child marriage ...

Quickly and silently, women in Afghanistan are losing their identities. Last week the Taliban confirmed that all beauty salons in the country must close up shop in one month. According to the ...

Afghanistan ’s Taliban rulers have asked all NGOs to stop their female employees from working after “serious complaints” about their dress code. The order threatened to stop the operations ...

“The Taliban's dress-code crackdown and arbitrary arrests is a further violation of women's freedom of movement and expression in Afghanistan,” Amnesty International said on January 14.

Planning on going to Afghanistan? Curious about how a person navigates this war-torn country?Journalist Edward Girardet, who has been reporting on Afghanistan for more than 30 years – including ...

When Fawzia Amini worked as a senior judge in Afghanistan’s Supreme Court, she presided over cases of violent crimes against women. When the Taliban stormed Kabul and took control of Afghanistan ...