The United Nations mission in Afghanistan has expressed concern about the Taliban's arrest of women and girls for alleged failure to comply with the authorities’ dress code ...

On Saturday, the UN renewed its call for these bans to be lifted. ''The erasure of women and girls from public life cannot be ignored,'' said Roza Otunbayeva, head of the UN mission in Afghanistan.

Since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in 2021, they have banned education for women and girls beyond sixth grade, most employment, and barred them from many public spaces. Last August, the ...

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution Monday over U.S. objections calling on Afghanistan's Taliban rulers to reverse their worsening oppression of women and girls and ...