Afghan Taliban clamp down on women, smartphones, protests

The Taliban are tightening the screws on women's clothing, shooting at protesters and ordering even their own officials to stop using smartphones. Behind the regime's omnipresent control, there are ...

Sushmita Banerjee: The Bengali writer who escaped the Taliban and wrote about life under its rule

Her memoir Kabuliwalar Bangali Bou inspired the 2003 film Escape From Taliban. Nearly two decades after fleeing Afghanistan, ...

Taliban forces in Afghanistan open fire on rare protest sparked by women's arrests over dress code

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers deny shooting at protesters and claim no women or girls have been arrested because they're all following strict dress code rules.
The Conversation

The women’s rights crisis in Afghanistan is an ongoing humanitarian calamity

Where is one of worst places to be a woman? Afghanistan. That’s what most people think when it comes to the topic of the women’s rights crisis under the ruling Taliban in Afghanistan. But this only ...
Yahoo

ICC issues arrest warrants for Taliban leaders over women's rights violations

The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for the Taliban's supreme leader and the head of Afghanistan's Supreme Court on charges of persecuting women and girls in the country. The ...
Deccan Chronicle

The Women Who Refuse to Be Silenced in Taliban-Ruled Afghanistan

While political tensions and human right violations in Afghanistan have been a flashpoint since 2021 but information about ground realities has been scarce as it is pretty isolated in its rule ...
Jurist

UNAMA: Taliban systemically erasing women’s public life and freedom of movement

The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) on Thursday released its first quarterly human rights report of 2025, stating that the Taliban continues to implement decrees aimed at erasing women ...
Yahoo

UN rights chief says Taliban decree expands executions, deepens repression

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Afghan Taliban fighter sits on a tank near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in Spin Boldak, Kandahar Province, following ...
The Diplomat

The ICC Wants to Arrest Taliban Leaders Over Their Mistreatment of Women. Will It Matter?

The warrants – the first ever on charges of gender persecution – are being hailed as an “important vindication and acknowledgement of the rights of Afghan women and girls.” But will they improve the ...
Newsday

Afghanistan's Taliban have 'weaponized' the judicial system to oppress women, UN expert says

UNITED NATIONS — Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have “weaponized” the legal and judicial system to oppress women and girls in what amounts to “crimes against humanity,” the independent U.N. investigator ...
The New York Times

The Taliban ruined the dreams of female Afghan footballers. In exile, their struggle to play continues

“My team-mates are my sisters. Our dream is to play together again, standing side by side.” In June 2021, Fatima Foladi was a rising football star in Afghanistan when she scored against Tajikistan in ...