Afghanistan

The FIFA-backed Afghan Women’s Refugee Team is about to fly out to Dubai for its first chance of international football for four years.

Afghan women and girls are bearing some of the heaviest burdens of a deadly 6.0 magnitude in the country’s eastern provinces on Sunday.

It has now been four years since the Taliban took over Afghanistan. UN Women says women are being erased in a human rights crisis.

The UN Women Gender Index for Afghanistan is a sobering reminder of how devastating the consequences are when women are systematically excluded.

While all eyes are on the Middle East amid conflict between Iran and Israel, burgeoning humanitarian crises fly under the radar.

The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Taliban leaders, accusing them of persecuting women in Afghanistan since 2021. 

The International Cricket Council announced a monetary fund and task force last week to support the exiled Afghan women’s cricket team.

In Afghanistan, living conditions are so bad that some families are selling their children in order to feed the rest of the family.

Several thousand women are likely to die from complications during pregnancy and childbirth as a result of Trump’s foreign aid freeze.

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

Women training as midwives and nurses in Afghanistan have been barred by the Taliban from continuing their education.

On International Day of the Girl, Plan International Australia CEO Susanne Legena speaks with 17-year-old Plan youth activist Lena Nabizada.