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 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 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.
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.
News & Views Horrifying terror attack in Kabul claims lives of teenage girls On Saturday, devastating explosions outside a school in Kabul killed at least 68 people and wounded over 165.
News & Views Why this peace process cannot fail the women of Afghanistan again US President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw American troops by September could complicate efforts to broker peace between the Taliban and the Afghan Government.
News & Views Mothers in Afghanistan can now have their names included on their children’s birth certificates In a rare victory for women’s rights in Afghanistan, mothers’ names will be permitted to be included on their children’s birth certificates.
News & Views At 23, Samira Tollo is challenging the status quo and running an expanding fintech Samira Tollo might be only 23 years-old, but the cryptocurrency marketplace company she co-founded is celebrating its second round of capital investment.
News & Views A peace agreement in Afghanistan won’t last if there are no women at the table As the US government engages in peace negotiations with the Taliban, not a single woman has been included, writes Susan Hutchinson.