The shocking news of the suicide of a 16-year-old girl in Iran who ended her life after being threatened with expulsion when ...

It’s the latest restriction on women following morality laws that ban them from raising their voices, baring their faces outside the home, completing their education, travelling alone, and going to ...

This is a locator map for Afghanistan with its capital, Kabul. (AP Photo) KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Explosions and gunfire in Iran killed at least two Afghans earlier this month, the Taliban ...

The Taliban has enacted yet another law further oppressing the freedoms of women and girls, this time issuing a decree that prohibits them from praying aloud or reciting the Qur’an in each other ...

Laws included the ban on women reading or singing in public. In 2022, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan said that Taliban restrictions on the freedoms of women and girls ...

The Taliban has banned women in Afghanistan from hearing each other’s voices in what experts say is its latest step toward erasing “women entirely from public life and society”. The country ...

The Taliban has enacted a new measure prohibiting Afghan women from praying aloud or reciting the Quran in the presence of other women. It marks another addition to a mounting pile of laws ...

The exact details of the Taliban’s new ruling are unclear, though the minister said it “will be gradually implemented, and God will be helping us in each step we take”. Human rights ...

The Taliban has once again taken steps to further impose extreme restrictions on women under its interpretation of sharia law in Afghanistan, this time banning women from "hearing other women’s ...

It was forbidden for adult women to allow their voices to be heard by other women (Picture: AFP) The Taliban have banned women’s voices from being heard amongst other women. Khalid Hanafi, ...

Help us keep bring these critical stories to light. Your support makes all the difference. The Taliban in Afghanistan have implemented a bizarre new edict that will further curb the voices of ...