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From: Inside Story Women in Afghanistan express shock and anger over Taliban decision that drew international condemnation. Women’s rights have

US warns Taliban of ‘costs’ over university ban for Afghan women | Taliban News

US secretary of state says Taliban is sentencing women and girls in Afghanistan to a ‘dark future without opportunity’. US

Saudi Arabia expressed ‘astonishment and regret’ over the ban, while Turkey called it ‘neither Islamic nor humane’. Turkey and Saudi

Women university students in Afghanistan were turned away from campuses on Wednesday after the Taliban administration said women would be

Maryam, a 23-year-old political science student in Afghanistan, was finishing her university assignments on Tuesday evening, when her fiancé called

Group has backtracked on promises to guarantee certain rights for girls and women since its return to power last year.

Afghanistan’s Taliban-run higher education ministry has said that female students would not be allowed access to the country’s universities until

An affiliate of the United States reproductive health nonprofit Planned Parenthood has announced on Tuesday that it started teleconferences with

Jailed ex-Hollywood kingpin faces a new 24-year sentence for raping an Italian woman in Los Angeles in 2013. Disgraced Hollywood

A US-drafted resolution to remove Iran from the Commission on the Status of Women passed over objections from Iran. Iran