Fresh violence has broken out in Khash district of Badakhshan province, where armed clashes between Taliban forces and local ...

Hundreds of thousands of Afghans have left Iran over the past weeks since Tehran gave more than four million undocumented ...

RAWA NEWS is a selection of news from Afghanistan which reflects the bitter realities of life in Afghanistan but rarely appear in the world media. The news uncover the disastrous life of Afghan women, ...

A corner of the Daralaman palace. The Daralaman palace has attracted many journalists and foreigners as a symbol of the destruction of Kabul. This was particularly the case during the beginning of the ...

RAWA Responds to the Taliban Takeover It is a joke to say values like â womenâ s rightsâ , â democracyâ , â nation-buildingâ etc. were part of the US/NATO aims in Afghanistan!

Over the course of six months, photographer Kiana Hayeri and researcher Melissa Cornet created a portrait of the lives of Afghan women under the strict regime of the Taliban. In a country facing one ...

When Fawzia went into labor with her fifth child, she knew something was wrong. She felt like her insides were being ripped apart by knives. She bled so much that her clothes were soaked. "I did not ...

In a statement presented by a RAWA activist in the protest, it reads: International Human Rights Day comes at a time when Afghanistan is no longer facing "human rights catastrophe" but the complete ...

Taliban gunmen have raided the homes of women’s rights activists in Kabul, beating and arresting female campaigners in a string of actions apparently triggered by recent demonstrations.

HERAT, Afghanistan — Amid the bustle of beggars and patients outside the crowded hospital here, there are sellers and buyers, casting wary eyes at one another: The poor, seeking cash for their vital ...

Afghanistan is at risk of a polio outbreak, health officials have warned, after the Taliban suspended the vaccination campaign over security fears and restrictions on women. The World Health ...

For more than two years, the Taliban regime in Kabul has been in full violation of the Olympic Charter thanks to its religious war on women’s sport in Afghanistan. But the Islamic rulers of the Asian ...