He achieved world renown with his 1984 photograph Afghan Girl, a striking depiction of a young refugee with mesmerizing green eyes. The image first appeared on the June 1985 issue of National ...

21 x 14 in. (53.3 x 35.6 cm.) ...

Amina, now 15, has always wanted to become ... the enforced wearing of the hijab. The Afghan Centre for Human Rights calls the ban on older girls attending school a "systematic and targeted ...

UNESCO amplifies the voices of Afghan women and girls who have been impacted by severe restrictions since the Taliban’s return to power in 2021. More than 70 decrees have curtailed their basic ...

A USAID grant enabled them to either study online or enroll in college in another country. Now the grant has been terminated.

In January, one senior official left Afghanistan after speaking out against the ban, which has denied education to more than ...

With Gaza in ruins, the war in Ukraine at a critical juncture, and millions of Africans facing starvation, global attention has understandably shifted away from the plight of Afghan girls denied ...

“She was suffering because of not going to school, but now she suffers more for studying ... school and continue their learning. Afghan women and girls remain locked out of education ...

Afghan girls and young women would lose rights to education if returned to Afghanistan, as per Taliban authority bans. Amnesty International condemned the removal of Afghans in Islamabad awaiting ...

These guitarists – 18-year-old Yasemin aka Jellybean, 16-year-old Zakia, 14-year-old Shukriya, and seven-year-old Uzra – are ...