"This is one of the most worrying legal developments in Afghanistan under the Taliban," says Roqia Saee, a women's rights ...

Up to 70% of girls may be in early or forced marriages but law now makes divorce impossible if husbands disagree ...

A new Afghan law requires girls to wait until puberty before seeking to get out of a marriage. It also requires mediation for ...

The United Nations has criticized a new Afghan law on separation in marriage, saying it entrenches discrimination against women and girls.

The Afghanistan Refugee team will contain players who had been contracted to the Afghanistan Cricket Board and left the country after being “systematically excluded from sport a ...

The young women make photos that look at life — how it is, how they wish it could be — under Taliban rule. The images are on display at the Photoville Festival in Brooklyn, New York.

The UN Women's special representative in Afghanistan said the new legislation represented 'another serious development' in ...