Advocacy Reports

Kabul: The Taliban’s Supreme Court announced that six individuals in Paktia province were publicly flogged on charges of “sodomy” and theft. In a statement released on Thursday, August 28, the cour...

The UN Women section states that four years after the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, the group continues to deny the rights of women and girls. The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA)...

The Taliban have flogged a man and a woman in northern Afghanistan after convicting them of having extramarital relations, the group’s Supreme Court said. In a statement on Saturday the court said...

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid dismissed questions on girls’ education and the cancelled trip of the group’s foreign minister to India, describing both as “minor” issues. Speaking at a press...

A growing number of Afghan refugees in Pakistan are voicing grave concerns over intensified police harassment and the looming threat of forced deportation. Speaking to Etilaat Roz on Monday, August...

While the world largely remains silent on the collapse of human rights in Afghanistan, the country’s civil society has once again launched a bold and determined movement against the Taliban’s misogy...

Radio France Internationale reports that under Taliban rule, the greatest aspiration of Afghan women and girls is to leave the country. Severe restrictions on education, employment, and public life h...

In the latest display of harsh corporal punishment, the Taliban publicly flogged two women and two men in Ghazni and Baghlan provinces on charges of “moral corruption” and “illicit relations.” Accord...

The Malala Fund, founded by prominent women’s rights advocate and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai, has announced it will allocate over $3.26 million to support education for girls in Afg...

Three years after the Taliban returned to power, the situation for women in Afghanistan has become dire. A recent analysis by the *Genocide Watch* website reports that between January 2022 and June...

Reza Jafari, head of the Afghanistan Peace Dialogue organization, announced the founding of the Afghanistan Green Party in Exile in Paris, France. The party’s mission is to advocate for women’s righ...

A number of Afghan female students, who were relocated to Doha, Qatar, through a U.S.-supported educational program after the fall of Kabul, are now at risk of deportation. According to Radio Canad...