The UN Women's special representative in Afghanistan said the new legislation represented 'another serious development' in ...

A new Afghan law requires girls to wait until puberty before seeking to get out of a marriage. It also requires mediation for ...

Up to 70% of girls may be in early or forced marriages but law now makes divorce impossible if husbands disagree ...

Pakistan, May 25 -- Taliban authorities have shut down three local radio stations in southern Afghanistan, intensifying an ...

Angered EU lawmakers say those who ‘carry out crimes against humanity should never set foot on European soil without passing ...

U.S. Army veteran Ted Daniels rips Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner over a resurfaced post about his ...

In the statement, the ministers lamented what they referred to as the "steady deterioration" of human and democratic rights in Afghanistan since the Taliban seized power last year ...

The United Nations has criticized a new Afghan law on separation in marriage, saying it entrenches discrimination against women and girls ...

The Afghanistan Refugee team will contain players who had been contracted to the Afghanistan Cricket Board and left the country after being “systematically excluded from sport a ...

Former Karnataka Ranji cricketer SL Akshay died of a suspected heart attack while playing a local division match in Bengaluru on Sunday. The 39-year-old fast bowler complained of chest pain during ...

Afghanistan women’s refugee team will tour United Kingdom in June and be guests at July’s World Cup final at Lord’s.