Taliban

32-year old former female Afghan lawmaker, Mursal Nabizada has been shot dead in her home in Kabul on Saturday night

Women and girls in Afghanistan will no longer be permitted to attend university after the Taliban, issued its latest order.

Afghan women are being “erased”, according to prominent journalist and women’s rights activist, Mahbouba Seraj. 

Research into new Taliban policies to control women shows the group might be using different tactics, but it still poses grave dangers.

The Taliban issued an order last week, mandating that every female face be obscured. Every station has since must complied.

Weeks after four female anti-Taliban activists went missing, presumed detained, Afghanistan’s “de facto authorities” have released them. 

The Afghanistan women’s youth development soccer team have arrived in London after being flown on chartered flight paid for by Kim Kardashian West.

Girls education activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai has married her partner Asser Malik in a small ceremony.

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.

Journalist Behesta Arghand who interviewed a Taliban spokesperson on television days after the fall of Kabul, has since fled Afghanistan.

Despite claims they are altering their ways, Taliban insurgents shot and killed a woman for not wearing a burqa on Tuesday.

Malala Yousafzai, who survived a Taliban assassination attempt as a teenager, has said she has real fears for women and girls in Afghanistan.