Research Reports

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has released a new report on the widespread and concerning impacts of the Taliban’s Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice law on the...

The international organization Global Issue has stated in a recent report that the Taliban continue to systematically suppress women and target expressions of their independence and identity—even with...

The Taliban-run National Television has reported that three individuals are set to be publicly executed by "Qisas" (retributive justice) on Friday (April 11) in the provinces of Nimroz and Badghis. Ac...

Although women have no place in the Taliban’s all‑male government and this group is globally notorious for its misogyny, a woman named Ahu Bashiri paved the streets and alleys of Zahkan village in An...

Three Afghan schoolgirls in the state of Texas, USA, were targeted in a group attack by other students. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has condemned the incident as a violation of hu...

A total of 208 Afghan female students who were studying under the online scholarship program of the American University of Afghanistan have been left in uncertainty after the abrupt suspension of the...

Guardian has reported that the UK government rejected the asylum applications of 26 Afghan women’s rights activists during the last quarter of 2024. According to the report, one applicant was even to...

The Taliban’s Supreme Court has announced that a woman and a man were publicly flogged in Sar-e Pol province on charges of “illicit relations.” In a statement issued on Monday (April 7), the court sta...

On the occasion of World Health Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that in Afghanistan, one woman dies every two minutes due to complications during pregnancy or childbirth. In a messa...

Human rights and women’s rights activists have called on Amnesty International, UNAMA, the UN Human Rights Council, and other international bodies to take immediate action to rescue Qadriya, a victim...

Women’s rights activists in Baghlan have called on UNAMA to prevent the handover of Qadriya, a female prisoner and victim of domestic violence, to her father. They said the Taliban have decided to ha...

The Guardian has reported that the Taliban’s restrictions on women's movement without a male guardian, early marriages, lack of healthcare services, road insecurity, and cultural neglect of women's he...