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

After initially pledging to honor women’s rights, the Taliban has nearly erased women from public life ... “She’s not in the ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Girls from the age of nine will have to wear veils, and women will be forbidden from travelling ... fashion and social media trends, such as clothing and popular hairstyles including quiffs ...