When the international community thought that it could not get any worse for women in Afghanistan ... at men they are not related to by blood or marriage and vice versa. However, it did not ...

Rashid Khan, Afghanistan's celebrated cricketer and one of the top T20I spinners in the world, got married in Kabul on ...

Helmand Province, Afghanistan With lenders “pressing hard” on her widowed mother, 11-year-old Babogai went from a childhood selling firewood and paper to help her family, to a young wife overwhelmed ...

Child marriage is the most prevalent human rights violation in Afghanistan, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) said in a statement. Every year, millions of girls are subjected to practices ...

Select a country to explore how it compares to the region. Afghanistan’s legal minimum age for marriage is 16. UNICEF defines any union with a partner younger than 18 as child marriage. In 2017, the ...

The last three years have seen the Taliban placing restrictions on all aspects of women’s lives in Afghanistan. From education to employment. From movement to participation in everyday activities. Whe ...

the most persecuted tribe in Afghanistan.’ Dr. Sima Samar has been fighting for equality and justice for most of her life. Born into a polygamous family, she learned early that girls had inferior ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Girls attend school on the first day of the new school year, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on March 25, 2023. (AP ...