Upon returning to power in 2021,the Taliban sharply restricted Afghan women’s access to public life and their individual liberty. This was far from a surprise, given the group’s track record when it ...

Three years ago, the U.S. and its allies evacuated thousands of Afghans who had worked with them during the war against the Taliban. But the women and girls who remain in Afghanistan now live under a ...

The world has long been aware of the scourge of apartheid -- the systemic segregation or discrimination of people based on their race. But what about the institutionalized practice of singling people ...

Melanne Verveer is the executive director of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security and the former U.S. ambassador at large for global women’s issues. Karima Bennoune is the Lewis M.

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The Taliban government in Afghanistan is drawing renewed outrage over a new law banning women’s voices in public, forcing them to completely cover their bodies and faces out of the home, and more.

A group of Afghan women's rights activists have launched a hunger strike in Germany to protest against the policies of the ruling Taliban that limit the rights and freedoms of Afghan women. The hunger ...

Iranian journalist and outspoken women's rights activist Masih Alinejad called on President Biden to "isolate" Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and take a stand in support of protesters ...

Three years ago, the U.S. and its allies evacuated thousands of Afghans who had worked with them during the war against the Taliban. But the women and girls who remain in Afghanistan now live under a ...

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JOHANNESBURG — Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai said Tuesday that the world needs to recognize and confront the “gender apartheid” against women and girls imposed by the Taliban since they ...