Banned from much work, high school and speaking in public, women are subject to ever-worsening oppression at the hands of the Taliban. Zahra Joya meets the activists staging small acts of resistance ...
The Taliban's supreme leader has banned women from taking nursing and midwifery courses. And that is tragic news for women in Afghan society as those courses were more or less the only option left for ...
The European Union has condemned the ban, while the United Nations chief mission in Afghanistan said it was "extremely concerned about a reported directive" that was preventing women and girls ...