Advocacy Reports

The Taliban's Supreme Court announced that a woman in Daikundi province was sentenced to 39 lashes and one year of imprisonment on charges of "adultery," with the corporal punishment carried out in p...

An Associated Press report reveals that Afghan girls, once aspiring to become doctors, are now compelled to attend religious schools due to the closure of regular schools and universities under Talib...

Local sources in Nangarhar province confirm that a mullah imam in Jalalabad, the provincial capital, raped and murdered one of his students. The crime took place in the “Khales Family” area of the si...

The Taliban’s Supreme Court has announced that seven individuals, including two women, were publicly flogged and sentenced to imprisonment in the provinces of Takhar, Kunar, and Jawzjan, on charges s...

Reports from Badakhshan indicate escalating pressure on women and girls by the Taliban’s so-called "Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice." On Wednesday evening (July 23), Talib...

In yet another move to erase women from public life, the Taliban have effectively censored the voices and images of female journalists during official government broadcasts. Over the past days, Tali...

UN Women has declared that Afghanistan faces an unprecedented women’s rights crisis. The 2024 Gender Index shows Afghan women access only 17.3 percent of their human rights, against a global average...

Filippo Grandi, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, in a meeting with Taliban officials, stressed the urgent need to ensure the security and human dignity of returning women and childr...

Richard Bennett, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, says he is deeply concerned about the recent wave of detentions of women and girls in Kabul by the Taliban. On Monday, July...

The Taliban’s Supreme Court has announced that on Wednesday (July 16), 18 people, including five women, were flogged in public in Gosfandi district of Sar-e Pol province. According to the c...

Eyewitnesses from Kabul’s 10th and 13th districts report that since last Wednesday, dozens of young women have been detained by the Taliban’s Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of V...

Following a six-day election for the Migrants’ Parliament in France, four Afghan migrants — Sayyara Rahmani, Rohullah Sediq, Fatema Haidari, and Enamulah Samoon — secured the highest number of votes...