By AFPUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced new visa restrictions against the Taliban Wednesday in response to bans on employment and education for women in Afghanistan."I amtaking actiontoday to impose additional visa restrictions on certai...

UN-appointed independent human rights experts in Afghanistan have expressed grave concern at the continuing breakdown of the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary, describing the crisis as a “human rights catastrophe.”This came in a joint...

By AFPA small group of Afghan women staged a defiant protest in Kabul on Thursday against a Taliban order banning them from universities, an activist said, adding that some were arrested.In the latest move to restrict human rights in Afghanistan, the...

The National Council for Women (NCW) is participating at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27), which is hosted in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt from November 6-18, showcasing sustainable products made by local women.Jusoor Post talked w...

By AFPA hospital electrician serving a full-life sentence in Britain for murdering two women and sexually abusing corpses in mortuaries on Thursday admitted defiling a further 23 dead women.David Fuller, 68, previously admitted strangling 25-year-old...

A group of women leaders has demanded the exclusion of Iran from the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW).Preeminent world-famous women from more than 14 countries who are active in various political, economic, legal and artistic fields have pu...

Women leaders, especially women of color, are leaving their companies at an unprecedented level and are “dramatically underrepresented” in the United States, an eight-year survey conducted by LeanIn.Org and McKinsey & Company showed.“To put the s...

Spain has marked one of the most important steps in its legislative history, preserving the rights of women and protecting their security and safety.Spain’s Lower House of Parliament passed legislation thatrequires sexual consent to be explicit, appr...

For the Taliban movement, human rights and freedoms are alienable. Since the de facto authority of the Taliban took over power in mid-August 2021 following the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan, human rights have been abolished from the lives...

By AFPMalaysian woman Loh Siew Hong says her husband brutally abused her, battering her over the head and breaking her ankle, before running off with their children and converting them to Islam.After a long legal battle, Loh was finally reunited with...

By AFPSeventeen-year-old Istabraq Baraka fell pregnant soon after her wedding in the Gaza Strip. Three months later her husband killed her."She died from a severe beating, which caused bleeding on the brain and lungs and broken ribs," said her mother...

The UN rights chief urged the Taliban Friday to look to other Muslim countries for inspiration on improving the rights of women, and ending their "systematic oppression" in Afghanistan.Speaking before the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva...