The Taliban authorities that rule Afghanistan have imposed a severe interpretation of Islamic law on the population, heavily ...

The International Criminal Court, a U.N. agency, has to approve the warrants. They've been condemned by the Taliban and ...

The top prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) says he will seek arrest warrants against senior leaders of the Taliban government in Afghanistan over the persecution of women and girls.

The Taliban government ordered NGOs two years ago to stop employing Afghan women, claiming they were not adhering to the mandated dress code, including the wearing of headscarves. The latest ...

The Taliban government says it will close all ... adhere to the administration’s interpretation of the Islamic dress code for women. The Economy Ministry said it was responsible for the ...

The Taliban administration has directed ... ordered NGOs to suspend the employment of Afghan women, citing alleged non-compliance with Islamic dress codes. The ministry’s latest warning ...

The Taliban have announced they will close all national and foreign nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) employing women in Afghanistan. IMAGE: An Afghan woman walks past a beauty salon in Kabul ...

Under Taliban rule, women in Afghanistan have been progressively ... pretext that they were not observing the required Islamic dress code. The latest order is seen as another step in the group ...

With the war now over, the Taliban are welcoming ... Male tourists, too, are expected to dress modestly, but they do not face the same intense scrutiny as women. Greg Ernest, 67, a retired British ...

The meeting was part of the Indian side’s continuing engagement with the Taliban regime in Kabul ... 500 units of winter clothing and 1.2 tonnes of stationery kits. The readout said the two ...

Clothing must not be thin ... Midwifery and nursing were among the few career options available to women under the Taliban’s restrictions as male medics cannot treat women without a male guardian ...