Over the next month, 32 national football teams will compete across Australia and New Zealand in the Women's World Cup. A 33rd team - unofficial, by Fifa's standards - will also be in Australia, but ...

The Taliban’s 2022 ban on female secondary and higher education has drawn international condemnation, but few other consequences so far.

International Editor Emma Murphy travelled to Afghanistan to hear from women and girls whose lives changed forever when US ...

Five years since the Taliban came to power, the United Nations has warned that funding issues mean more than half of women’s organisations still operating in Afghanistan could cease operations within ...

Afghan women have been living under one of the most repressive systems in the world, as the Taliban continue to impose restrictive edicts – over 160 in total to date. These orders restrict their ...