The European Union Parliament plans to host a series of events on Tuesday and Wednesday to highlight the situation faced by women in Afghanistan. Parliament’s “Afghan...
Xiomara Castro was sworn in as Honduras’ first woman president on Thursday in front of a cheering crowd including U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, who pledged...
Balkh Municipality has hired about 200 female street cleaners in a bid to help Afghan women secure employment. Local officials stated that Balkh Municipality along with...
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) on Friday released a decree on women’s rights which said women should not be considered “property” and must consent to marriage....
The United Nations in Afghanistan has called on everyone to take concrete actions to end violence against women. Marking the International Day for the Elimination of...
The interim government of Afghanistan has obtained achievements in protecting the rights of all ethnic groups as well as women and children since its establishment, said...
Cricket Australia (CA) confirmed on Friday it has postponed the Afghanistan test in Hobart scheduled for Nov. 27 until the situation regarding the women’s game in...
The Taliban will ban women from playing cricket and other sports, a Taliban spokesperson told Australian network SBS on Wednesday, Reuters reported. Taliban spokesperson Ahmadullah Wasiq...
Afghan women on Wednesday voiced their dissatisfaction over the absence of women in Afghanistan’s new interim government, adding that without the participation of women the government...
Afghan women staged a protest in Kabul on Friday, calling on the Taliban to preserve their achievements and education. The group held up signs and chanted,...
Former President George W. Bush on Wednesday criticized the withdrawal of NATO troops from Afghanistan and said civilians were being left to be “slaughtered” by the...
Interest in the Olympic Games among women is rising, with nearly as many women as men now keen on the sports extravaganza due to begin in...
Three members of one family were killed and 11 others wounded by unknown gunmen on Tuesday night in Injil district in western Herat province, local officials...
US President Joe Biden said in a letter to Congress on Tuesday that Washington will continue to fully support peace talks between the Afghan government and...
Amnesty International said Monday that the two decades of hard-won progress by Afghanistan’s women and girls are at serious risk of being unraveled. The organization raised...
The first round of this year’s women’s Kung Fu qualifiers started in Kabul on Sunday. Forty female athletes from Balkh, Ghazni & Kabul provinces came together...
The Afghanistan Cancer Foundation (ACF) said on Thursday that 15,000 people in Afghanistan die of cancer in the country every year. The ACF said that a...
Three new factories in Herat province have been officially launched with separate production lines now in operation, local officials confirmed. The factories, and food and dairy;...
Women representatives of the Wolesi Jirga (Lower House of Parliament) attended a video conference with key members of the U.S. Congress on Thursday evening where they...
The U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad said on Tuesday that President Joe Biden’s administration would press for “meaningful participation” for women and minorities in...
