UK to launch resettlement scheme for vulnerable Afghans
Boris Johnson is expected to announce a new resettlement scheme for Afghans, especially women and girls, which will be separate from the UK's asylum system
Afghanistan's gender gap by numbers
Statistics show that Afghanistan is one of the most challenging places in the world to be a woman
Merkel says Germany may need to rescue 10,000 people from Afghanistan
Merkel said those needing evacuation included 2,500 Afghan support staff as well as human rights activists, lawyers and others whom the government sees as being at risk if they remained in the country
Floggings to forced marriages - women's freedoms under threat from Taliban
Politician Fawzia Koofi, one of the few women involved in peace negotiations and a vocal critic of the Taliban, said women are being forced to marry fighters and banned from leaving home without a male companion
U.N. chief urges Taliban restraint, is concerned about women, girls
Under Taliban rule between 1996 and 2001, women could not work, girls were not allowed to attend school and women had to cover their faces
Afghan women forced from banking jobs as Taliban take control
Fears over Afghan women's rights continue after the Taliban take control of around third of the country’s 34 provincial capitals in a week
Afghanistan on brink of 'humanitarian catastrophe', UN agencies say
More than 250,000 people have been forced from their homes since May, 80 percent of them women and children
EXCLUSIVE: Cocoa giant in Brazil slave labour probe says it can't trace supplies
Olam International is being sued by Brazilian prosecutors for allegedly failing to address labor abuses in its supply chain
OPINION: To achieve inclusive growth globally, we must invest in our women
The world will only achieve its economic potential when its women are fully empowered to participate in their communities and their economies
From Middle East to India, women 'violated' in Pegasus hack
Pegasus spyware has put women in the global south at risk of blackmail, harassment and even 'bodily harm,' experts and victims say