For Saja, studying nursing at a healthcare institute in Kabul was her last lifeline to make something of herself after women ...

The United Nations said that the future of Afghanistan depends on safeguarding the rights of all its citizens.

A new directive from the Taliban bans women from studying dentistry, nursing and midwifery. The group, which took over the ...

Women bear the heaviest burden of the Taliban's gender apartheid policies. But they have negative impacts on men, too. The ...

The State Department on Wednesday condemned the Taliban’s newest order preventing women from studying medical courses, citing ...

Women training as midwives and nurses in Afghanistan have told the BBC they were ordered not to return to classes in the morning - effectively closing off their last route to further education in ...

The Taliban's bloody takeover of Afghanistan in 2021 effectively ended women's cricket in the war-torn country and has ...

The European Union says the Taliban's latest reported decision represented another appalling violation of fundamental human ...

Even under the extreme conservatism of the Taliban, director Sahra Mani has faith in the enduring power of art. 'We kept the ...

A Taliban shutdown on midwife and nurse training in Afghanistan has students worried over the health consequences for women. Medical trainees have launched singing protests and taken to social media ...

The U.N. mission in Afghanistan wants the country's Taliban rulers to embrace global human rights obligations for the protection and prosperity of future generations.