A British soldier with a baby at Kabul airport. Photograph: Sky New Afghanistan is facing an “absolute catastrophe” involving widespread...

Two decades of gains in rights and liberties for the women of Afghanistan hang by a thread as many go into hiding The embassy of...

Iam thinking about Farkhunda. You may have read about her six years ago and felt outrage at the Afghan men who killed her. All that...

An acclaimed photojournalist who captured the hopes of women and girls after the fall of the Taliban in 2001 fears they have been...

The Australian government has evacuated more than 50 women footballers and athletes and their dependents from Afghanistan following an...

Educators say they fear reversal of hard-won progress as aid workers call for Taliban’s desire for international legitimacy to be used as...

'All the world has left us behind', a female aid worker trapped in Afghanistan feels she has been 'left behind' by the West 'to die' A...

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told the New York Times that the terrorist group will be more liberal than they were 20 years ago He...

Women cycling in Afghanistan (Image credit: Getty Images) The last 10 days have been a matter of life and death for the groundbreaking...

Madina Azizi is a football coach and former star of Afghanistan's female football team, something that simply wouldn't have been possible...

Elif Shafak’s Diary: Publishing heroes, Afghanistan’s forsaken women, and the lessons of Turkey’s autocratic turn Feminists from Turkey...

Working women in Afghanistan must stay at home until proper systems are in place to ensure their safety, a Taliban spokesman has told...

After 20 years of equality, the Taliban is placing cruel restrictions on women’s freedom again. Lynne O’Donnell, who was on one of the...

Afghan women say they fear a “painful and ugly” future after the Taliban ordered working women to stay at home, with some worried they...

(Paris) The Resolution adopted today by the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (HRC) during its Special Session on Afghanistan...

How do you assess the value of the Urban Development and Local Governance Program? The phase of democratic and political reforms underway...

What can government learn from companies who put their customers first? The public sector could continue to learn a thing or two from the...

Highlights Citizens play a critical role in advocating and helping to make public institutions more transparent, accountable and...

The concept of access to justice is finally taking its rightful role as a key pillar of the international development agenda (SDG16). It...

In Mexico since 2006, tens of thousands have been killed, and many more disappeared, as a war between narcotics gangs and government...