The U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) has closed eight centres providing support to Afghan refugees forced back to the country ...

Afghan women were left to die in the wake of the country’s 6.6 magnitude earthquake because of Taliban rules forbidding ...

Women trapped under debris are sometimes left behind while the dead are pulled out, further underscoring how gender rules, ...

In the wake of a series of earthquakes that have devastated eastern Afghanistan, the humanitarian response remains critically underfunded, with Western donors slow to act and gender-based restrictions ...

A massive earthquake this week that killed more than 1,400 people in Afghanistan has left women, already struggling under the ...

The United Nations is urging the Taliban interim government to lift its restrictions on female Afghan staff to speed relief ...

The United Nations in Afghanistan called on Thursday for the de facto Taliban authorities to lift restrictions barring women ...

Kunar Province, Afghanistan: In the devastating aftermath of the August 31 earthquake that killed over 2,200 people and ...

A prohibition on contact between unrelated women and men meant many women’s wounds went untended and some were left trapped ...

Nazia Ali, a strong, fast and physical midfielder for the senior Afghanistan side who was evacuated to Australia, also as a ...

For Sodaba, like countless other Afghan women, opportunities evaporated under the Taliban's tightening grip on their lives. Since seizing power in Afghanistan in 2021, the Taliban has systematically ...