As the world’s focus has shifted to other regions and conflicts — Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war — the ...

Cricket Australia is standing up for the brave women cricketers from Afghanistan in their fight against gender-based ...

After being evacuated from Afghanistan to Australia in 2021, these women have just played their first cricket match as a team — ever.

In a country where women are banned from talking loudly in public and even looking out of the windows, one of the few female ...

In 2025, the situation of women in Afghanistan remains alarming, with their fundamental rights systematically violated by the Taliban regime. Here are five essential freedoms that Afghan women are ...

She, along with other Afghanistan women cricketers turned refugees, found a new home a long way away - Australia. But the destruction of their homeland was devastating for Amiri and exacerbated by ...

Cricket's governing body is under fire from Afghan women after being banned from playing by the Taliban, while men have continued competing. The International Cricket Council (ICC) has been ...

Read more about the issue here. The issue was published on 12 December 2024. After three years of Taliban rule, nobody really believed women could be erased further from public life in Afghanistan.

It is one of the few places in Afghanistan where women like her can work since the Taliban came back into power in 2021. "When I worked in a beauty salon, it was good," she said. "The pay was good.

Throughout the changing political landscape of Afghanistan in the last fifty years, women have been campaigning for their rights and made some gains but the issue has also been exploited by different ...

Although Afghan women and girls have made strides in education, the economy, health care, politics, and broader civil society since the 2001 U.S.-led intervention, these advances remain fragile.