ISLAMABAD (AP) — The U.N. children’s agency on Saturday urged Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to immediately lift a lingering ...

A new school year has begun in Afghanistan with more than 2.2 million girls excluded from secondary education, a top UNICEF ...

In August 2021, the world watched as the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan, sweeping away two decades of progress toward democracy, human rights, and gender equality. While international ...

The new film "Rule Breakers" tells the true story of an Afghan all-girl robotics team that captured global attention in 2017. Actor Nikohl Boosheri portrays Roya Mahboob, the visionary behind the team ...

The United Nations children's agency has urged Taliban rulers of Afghanistan to lift the ban on girls' education, a decision that has hit the future of millions of children in the country.

Rule Breakers is a film that follows the story of young Afghan women who have broken stereotypes to pursue their dreams in science and technology.

This story appears in the December 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Twenty-five years ago an Afghan girl with green eyes haunted the cover of National Geographic. She became the iconic ...

Aria Aber’s splendid “Good Girl” introduces just such a voice, chronicling a young Afghan German woman’s misadventures among Berlin’s night clubs and drug dens as she plunges into a ...

The Afghan Taliban government earlier this year skipped a Pakistan-hosted global conference where Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai condemned the state of women’s and girl’s rights in ...