Afghan women

US president Donald Trump’s efforts to dismantle the US Agency for International Development (USAID) have had far-reaching, global impacts.

On Thursday, an Afghan women’s cricket team will take on a Cricket Without Borders XI at Melbourne’s Junction Oval.

Malala Yousafzai has given a powerful speech at an international education conference, calling on leaders to support girls’ education. 

An Afghan refugee, Hanifa is running a marathon for the women and girls in her home country who no longer have the same opportunities.

The Taliban’s new law silences Afghan women and intensifies gender apartheid, restricting their rights and education.

Taliban officials in Afghanistan have issued a ban on women’s voices and bare faces in public under a new set of morality laws.

On the three year anniversary of the Taliban’s takeover, the situation for women and girls in Afghanistan remains a ‘total nightmare’

Women’s groups in Afghanistan have criticised the UN’s decision to comply with Taliban’s restrictions on women at latest meetings.

The Taliban is sending Afghan women to prison to protect them from the threat of gender-based violence, according to a UN report.

There are calls for the government to engage with Pakistan over its policy that’s forcing Afghans to return to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. 

Australian teachers are helping to get humanitarian visa for their students from the Virtual School Australia. But time is running out.

Women and children account for two-thirds of the severely injured victims of the earthquakes in Afghanistan, the World Health Organisation has said.