The U.N. Security Council said Friday it was deeply concerned about the recent decision by Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to ...

The United Nations warned Thursday that the Taliban's decision to prohibit female students from pursuing medical training is ...

Roza Otunbayeva, who heads the UN mission in ... supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada has instead insisted that Afghan women ...

Meeting on the heels of the Taliban's new directive prohibiting women and girls from attending public and private medical ...

“With authority comes responsibility,” said Roza Otunbayeva, the head of the ... by their “systematic discrimination” against Afghan women and girls. The Taliban government, which is ...

particularly against women and girls. "Regrettably, we continue to see the opposite unfold in Afghanistan," said Roza Otunbayeva, head of the UN mission in Afghanistan. "There is an ongoing ...

But few are as poignant as those of its exiled women cricketers. Around nine months before the Taliban took over, Afghanistan ...

U.N. special envoy for Afghanistan, Roza Otunbayeva, told the council this week that women and girls are “facing progressive erasure from almost all walks of life.” She said the Taliban ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council said Friday it was deeply concerned about the recent decision by Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to ban women from medical education, which could ...

The resolution also extends the mandate of the UN expert team monitoring sanctions against the Taliban for 14 months.

U.N. special envoy for Afghanistan, Roza Otunbayeva, told the council this week that women and girls are “facing progressive erasure from almost all walks of life.” She said the Taliban ...