World All female TV presenters must cover their faces under Taliban’s new order The Taliban issued an order last week, mandating that every female face be obscured. Every station has since must complied.
News & Views Female anti-Taliban activists have finally been released Weeks after four female anti-Taliban activists went missing, presumed detained, Afghanistan’s “de facto authorities” have released them.
News & Views Kim Kardashian West helps fly Afghan women’s youth soccer team to safety The Afghanistan women’s youth development soccer team have arrived in London after being flown on chartered flight paid for by Kim Kardashian West.
News & Views ‘Partners for life’: Malala Yousafzai marries Asser Malik Girls education activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai has married her partner Asser Malik in a small ceremony.
News & Views Taliban shuts down women’s ministry, replacing it with ministry of virtue and vice The seizure of the women’s ministry is the latest sign that the Taliban is clamping down on women’s rights, one month after its takeover of Kabul.
News & Views Beheshta Arghand made headlines when she interviewed the Taliban. Now, she’s fled due to safety fears Journalist Behesta Arghand who interviewed a Taliban spokesperson on television days after the fall of Kabul, has since fled Afghanistan.
News & Views Taliban says it has changed. Evidence on the streets of Kabul tells a different story. Despite claims they are altering their ways, Taliban insurgents shot and killed a woman for not wearing a burqa on Tuesday.
News & Views ‘No time to spare’: Malala Yousafzai on why we must listen to Afghan women and girls Malala Yousafzai, who survived a Taliban assassination attempt as a teenager, has said she has real fears for women and girls in Afghanistan.
News & Views Afghanistan’s first female Paralympian trapped in her country, unable to compete in Tokyo Zakia Khudadadi is Afghanistan’s first female Paralympian but cannot go to the Tokyo Paralympics next week.
Politics Australian reporter Yalda Hakim receives live call on air from Taliban leader The jaw-dropping moment that Afghan-born Australian reporter for the BBC, Yalda Hakim was called by a spokesperson for the Taliban..
News & Views The world must not look away as the Taliban sexually enslaves women and girls The Taliban is now ordering religious leaders to provide them with lists of girls over the age of 15 to enter into ‘marriages’ to Taliban fighters.
Ed's Blog The world has failed the Afghan women it celebrated and promised to protect The international community has abandoned Afghan women just as we’ve celebrating everything they have achieved.