This story appears in the December 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Twenty-five years ago an Afghan girl with green eyes haunted the cover of National Geographic. She became the iconic ...

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

“It’s essential to continue advocating for the rights of Afghan girls ... so long to play under the name of Afghanistan,” Hashimi said. “I know it’s not a national [team] but still ...

A Brief History of Women's Rights In Afghanistan Think of women in Afghanistan now, and you'll probably recall pictures in the media of women being forced to wear full-body burqas, perhaps the famous ...

The group runs retreats to raise awareness and honor girls as wisdom keepers of the sacred feminine. This story appears in the January 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Alexandra lives ...

This story appears in the June 2011 issue of National Geographic ... betrothed girls have at least reached puberty. The littlest daughters tend to be added on discreetly, their names kept off ...

Jones is vaguely aware, too, that the Afghanistan women's national football team are part ... and not just for us – for all Afghan girls and women," she says. "Making hope for the future.