The policy was reversed soon afterwards. Nearly four years later, having dedicated her teenage years to fighting regressive restrictions against Afghan women and girls, Nila has won the ...

Recently, the Taliban in Afghanistan forbade Afghan women from praying loudly or reciting the Quran in front of other women, following the introduction of terrifying yet unsurprising new “vice ...

A 17-year-old who is not allowed to speak in public in her own country has won a prestigious international award for advocating for the rights of Afghan girls. Nila Ibrahimi won the International ...

CNN has spoken to five LGBTQ Afghans who say they experienced physical abuse during time in detention, including – for some – repeated rape, electrocution, strangulation and flogging with ...

Robyn Beck/AFP/AFP A rare inside account of the Taliban authorities' impact on Afghan women hits screens next week with the smartphone-filmed documentary "Bread & Roses." Produced by actress ...

Braving the 20ft (6m) drop into a wide trench below is, for many Afghans, the only way to cross into Turkey from Iran - and yet hundreds risk it each day. “I was in severe pain,” the former ...

There has been no official response by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) yet. Government sources have said that a “young Afghan student, who the MEA is familiar with” and who studied in India ...

Despite the United Nations condemning the practice as “inconsistent with the fundamental right to life” and "a form of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment," de facto Afghan ...

Kabul [Afghanistan], November 12 (ANI): The Afghan community in India is facing a critical issue – a severe shortage of consular staff. Over the past three years, Afghan diplomats manning the Afghan ...

An Afghan doctoral graduate and long-time resident of India has stepped up to provide crucial consular services for the Afghan community. This comes as a solution to the diplomatic void created by ...

In other words, overly-symmetrical schemes can only too readily tip into what Virginia White dubs ‘hotel couture.’ “Matchy matchy pattern works best with quite a simple pattern, ideally one or two ...