In this special coverage, Global Voices is publishing stories of nine Afghan girls who share how the Taliban restrictions have affected their lives and what hopes they bear for the future.

The plight of women in Afghanistan and the movement to recognize gender apartheid is a crucial step in protecting democracy, security and prosperity for our world.

For many Afghan women, especially those in conservative rural areas of the country, little has changed since the Taliban seized power in the country. For others, life under hard-line Islamist rule ...

They feel imprisoned "like a bird whose wings have been torn off" but struggle on, defiant in their own way. Five Afghan women talked to AFP about the things that help them cope with their lives ...

A story of cross-border empathy between Chinese readers and Afghan women 人类跨越国界高墙，其本质相似，心灵相通 / 他们想封住女人的嘴，她就成为劈开黑夜的光。 Across borders and walls, human nature remains the same ...