Anti-Afghan sentiment in Iran has been on the rise in recent years, especially after a mass influx of refugees and migrants following the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in 2021.
RFE/RL's Radio Azadi asked French President Emanuel Macron on July 22 about the significance for Afghan female teams competing in the upcoming Paris Olympics. He says these athletes carry the "hope of other women" and praises the resilience of Afghans.
The oppression of women and girls in Afghanistan and Iran is fueling a global push for "gender apartheid" to be recognized as a crime under international law. What is it and what is the path to recognition?
An Iranian filmmaking duo shot the story of millions of Afghans living for decades in Iran without rights. Alireza Ghasemi and Raha Amirfazli cast real Afghan refugees, secretly shooting in locations where their cast cannot legally go. In the Land of Brothers screened in Karlovy Vary in July.
Women's rights were not on the agenda and women were excluded, as members of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban took part in UN-organized international talks in Doha on June 30-July 1, prompting criticism from human rights groups.
Two days of UN-organized talks on international relations with Taliban-led Afghanistan were getting under way in the Qatari capital, Doha, on June 30, with the Taliban present for the first time.
At least 13 Afghans have received the death penalty in Iran so far this year, according to the Norway-based NGO Iran Human Rights.
The Taliban has publicly flogged dozens of people in a sports stadium in northern Afghanistan after their convictions for crimes involving “immoral relations.”
Residents of two remote districts in the northeastern Afghan province of Badakhshan have demanded more accountability and better treatment from the authorities after a Taliban crackdown on protests killed at least two people.
A Kurdish-language teacher in the Iranian city of Sanandaj has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for her cultural activities and support for the Women, Life, Freedom protests that have roiled the country since the death of Mahsa Amini in September 2022.
The Taliban says it has finalized plans to block or restrict access to Facebook. Afghans who depend on it as a means to circumvent school bans and the Taliban's dominance of media say any attempts to curtail Facebook would be the "final nail in the coffin" for free speech in their country.
Afghan women on International Women's Day demanded the country's hard-line Islamist Taliban rulers end bans and restrictions that have turned their lives upside down since the militants seized power in August 2021 as international troops withdrew.
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