The BBC spends the day with women across Afghanistan to understand what their lives look like under the Taliban government.

As a Greek woman in Afghanistan, I decided to live among ordinary Afghans to get a feel about their lives, worries and dreams ...

I will never allow myself to bring a child into this world ... "Returning to Afghanistan would mean losing all our dreams. It could mean forced marriage,” she says. “We are calling on the ...

Child marriage spans continents, language, religion, caste. In India the girls will typically be attached to boys four or five years older; in Yemen, Afghanistan, and other countries with high ...

This year, 2025, marks 50 years of International Women’s Day, a milestone in our journey towards gender equality.

The result of this marriage was a son and a daughter. With tears in her eyes, she told Pajhwok Afghan News: “My husband was a kind ... “Old age on one side, the pain of my child on the other… If I’m ...

Afghanistan's biggest rap star Sonita Alizadeh, who was sold into child marriage at the age of 10, will be one of the artists performing with musicians from the Ulster Orchestra. As part of a series ...