B ased on social media posts and news stories, Afghan Witness estimates there were about 100 reported detainments of women ...

Accounts from victims begging on the streets for money and food for their children have surfaced, detailing the abuse. Women ...

Following 9/11, former first lady of the US, Laura Bush, said, ‘The fight against terrorism is also a fight for the rights and dignity of women.’ Except, it wasn’t.

Afghan women detained under the Taliban's anti-begging laws describe horrific abuse, including rape and forced labor, after ...

In the documentary Bread and Roses, filmed on mobile phones, exiled filmmaker Sahra Mani portrays three Afghan women risking ...

Along with multiple reports of rape and torture of women arrested under the anti-begging laws, former detainees also told the ...

While in prison, they claim they were subjected to ... The women also witnessed children being beaten and abused. An Afghan woman begs for money from passing cars in the snow, with a child huddled ...

while in prison, which left her traumatised and depressed. The woman added that even young children who polished shoes on the streets were detained. Another former detainee told Afghan news ...

LONDON, - When the Taliban suddenly shut nursing and midwifery schools across Afghanistan this month, a handful of students in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif removed their white coats and set ...

Banned from much work, high school and speaking in public, women are subject to ever-worsening oppression at the hands of the Taliban. Zahra Joya meets the activists staging small acts of resistance ...