There are separate talks taking place hosted by the UN and Qatar. But here, too, the hosts agreed to the Taliban’s demands that no women’s organizations be represented and that the agenda for ...

Since taking power in 2021, no state has recognised the Taliban government but it has made diplomatic inroads recently, including attending UN-hosted talks on Afghanistan in Qatar. On Friday ...

India will join the 6th round of Moscow Format talks on Afghanistan, with a focus on regional security and counter-terrorism.

The case is being brought under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, which was ...

The Taliban on Monday rejected concerns and criticism raised by the United Nations over new vice and virtue laws that ban ...

A dozen U.N. Security Council ambassadors strongly condemned on Friday the Afghan Taliban’s recent “morality law” which further erodes the rights of women and girls in that country and ...

The Taliban say it's absurd to accuse them of gender discrimination and other human rights violations, as four countries vow ...

Making concessions to Taliban authorities by excluding civil society groups from UN-hosted talks was a price worth paying for further engagement, the EU's special envoy to Afghanistan said Tuesday.

The group has imposed a strict interpretation of Islam, with women subjected to laws characterised by the UN as "gender apartheid". The Taliban refused an invitation to Doha talks in February ...

ALSO READ: Afghan women’s rights an internal issue, Taliban govt says before UN-led talks Roza Otunbayeva, head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, has called the law a “distressing ...

Higher education was abolished for Afghan women when the Taliban took over Afghanistan after U.S. troops withdrew in 2021. Nearly 150 students enrolled at Asian University for Women in Bangladesh ...

The Taliban has rejected concerns and criticism from the United Nations over new vice and virtue laws which include a ban on women’s voices and bare faces in public ISLAMABAD (AP ...