The Afghan group rejects the charges as ‘baseless rhetoric’, saying that it does not recognise the international court.

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for the Taliban’s supreme leader and the head of Afghanistan’s supreme court, who have limited girls' education and banned women's voices from ...

Women Out Of Decision-Making Environments. Human rights campaigners have accused the Taliban of trying to erase women from all public life. In June, several thousand Taliban clerics and tribal ...

The ICC’s arrest warrants are a reminder of the Taliban’s gender apartheid regime after years in which the issue has faded from international attention.

Afghan women take part in a gathering at a hall in Kabul on Aug. 2 against the claimed human rights violations on women by the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. Sajjad Hussain/AFP via Getty ...

Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a Staff Correspondent for JURIST in Kabul comments on a new decree on ...

Life under the Taliban is the worst women’s rights crisis on the planet. When the Taliban returned to power last August, they imposed immediate and brutal restrictions, the harshest of which were ...

She says that women's rights in Afghanistan are a universal issue, not an internal problem of the country. More for You Elon Musk tries to muscle House GOP into passing child safety legislation ...

The American military, which purports to be supporting women’s rights in Afghanistan, ... Some years ago, addressing the issue of military rape, I wrote: ...

Mujahid said that the issue of women was “very important”: “The Islamic Emirate is committed to the rights of women within the framework of Sharia [Islamic law].

“Focusing on small issues like a woman's name does not solve our bigger problems,” he said. But for Naheed Farid, a member of the Afghan Parliament, the issue is an important starting point in ...

But as Catherine Russell, ambassador-at-large for global women's issues at the U.S. State Department, ... so much more remains to be done to protect and realize women's rights in Afghanistan.