The Afghanistan Women's XI played their first match after an evacuation likened to "a Jason Bourne movie", led by three women ...

FILE - Girls attend school on the first ... of human rights and ignoring the religious and national values of others. Earlier Friday, an Afghan women’s group had hailed the court's move.

Today, less than two out of five STEM graduates are women, and only 12 percent of national academies of science members ... Brave leaders such as ECW Global Champion Somaya Faruqi, who led the Afghan ...

The pause has halted HIV programs spearheaded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, said one worker, potentially impacting some 142,000 girls and ... align with the national interests ...

With an infant girl nursing at her breast and a seven ... The magazine thanks The Rockefeller Foundation and members of the National Geographic Society for their generous support of this series ...

as marriage is prized in Afghan culture. The high-ceilinged halls are segregated by gender, with music only tolerated on the women's side. "In Afghanistan, the marriage ceremony is the most important ...

But on some street corners, glittering colossal wedding halls loom out of the gloom, a rare display of opulence in the Afghan capital ... most important event for girls and boys.