The European Union Parliament passed a resolution, criticising the severe violation of human rights in Afghanistan and the "gender apartheid policy of the Taliban", reported...
It was a bloody reminder that the dark days of extremist violence appeared to have returned to Pakistan: a suicide attack on a religious festival...
Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan two years ago, they have deliberately issued 13 directives to restrict media freedom and access to important information within...
The Taliban government in Afghanistan plans to install a network of surveillance cameras in the country’s major cities, a project that has raised interest from...
The United Nations is calling on the Taliban in Afghanistan to reform the way it treats prisoners, citing more than 1,600 human rights violations in...
Foreign ministers from 12 nations issued a joint declaration on Tuesday, calling for an immediate halt to the Taliban’s systematic discrimination against women in Afghanistan....
The United Nations has recorded over 1,600 incidents of rights violations against people detained by the Taliban authorities, nearly half of them acts of torture...
Hundreds of women in Afghanistan say the United Nations should not recognize the Taliban government until women's access to work and education is restored, according...
Fresh restrictions have been put in place in Afghanistan's Bamiyan as shopkeepers have been instructed to remove thin and tight-fitting women's clothing from their shops....
Two years after the Taliban banned girls from school beyond sixth grade, Afghanistan is the only country in the world with restrictions on female education....
Pakistan security forces killed the former group commander of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Swat in an Intelligence-Based Operation (IBO) in the Swat district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,...
The Taliban raided the offices of a longstanding Swiss nonprofit group based in Afghanistan, detaining 18 workers – including one American and several women –...
