This ban is a continuation of the Taliban's extensive restrictions on women's rights, aiming to reduce their public ...

Afghan women are forbidden from praying loudly or reciting the Quran in front of other women. It’s the latest restriction on ...

Yet for the brutalised women of Afghanistan, nada. Not one measly public gathering to say “Free Afghan women”. The West’s ...

Sibylle Mani, the Human Rights Coordinator for Afghanistan at the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), travelled to ...

All the ways the Taliban are restricting lives of women in Afghanistan - Afghan women cannot be heard in public, even if it ...

Libya will introduce morality police in the capital to enforce “modesty” and clamp down on “strange” haircuts, the country’s interior minister has said.

Since then, the ministry has enforced decrees issued by the Taliban leadership that have a disproportionate impact on women and girls, like dress codes, segregated education and employment, and having ...

and only wear loose fitting clothing to avoid tempting others and not look at men who they are not related or married to. The men in turn are also forbidden to look at women. Taliban minister for ...

Under the new restrictions, women’s voices are considered potential "instruments of vice" and are thus forbidden from being heard in public. Singing or reading aloud is now prohibited—even from within ...

Khalida Popal’s memoir tells the story of the rise and fall of women’s football in Afghanistan from 1996 to 2021 ...