Since seizing power in 2021, Afghanistan's Taliban administration has rolled back hard-fought rights won by Afghan women and girls during two decades of rule by American-backed governments.

In the New Zealand context, extra support could take several forms such as humanitarian funding to local and international ...

The order enforces a decree from December 2022 that barred national and international NGOs in Afghanistan from employing women. This is part of a series of curbs that, in the three years since the ...

that Afghanistan's governing Taliban authorities must reverse their ban on Afghan women working for NGOs. Since the Taliban's return to power in August 2021, women have been progressively erased ...

The Taliban say they will close all national and foreign nongovernmental groups in Afghanistan employing women, the latest crackdown on women’s rights since they took power in August 2021. The ...

UN human rights chief Volker Turk on Tuesday said Afghanistan's governing Taliban authorities must reverse their ban on Afghan women working for NGOs. Since the Taliban's return to power in August ...

Taliban has announced it will close all national and foreign nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) employing women in Afghanistan. In a letter shared on X, Taliban-led Ministry of Economy warned ...

The announcement comes two years after they told NGOs to suspend the employment of Afghan women, allegedly because they didn’t wear the Islamic headscarf correctly. In a letter published on X ...

The Taliban have said they will close all national and foreign non-governmental groups (NGOs) in Afghanistan employing women. It comes two years after they told NGOs to suspend the employment of ...