Wedged between the Middle East, south Asia and central Asia, Afghanistan occupies a pivotal place in world geography and world history. Its location has helped draw a diversity of cultures, religions ...

Help students understand the Taliban's position within Afghanistan, how the Taliban's practices have raised concerns about human rights, and the economic and cultural climate in Afghanistan today.

They came together with the aim of making Afghanistan an Islamic state and ruled in Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001. Since then, the group has become notorious for their human rights abuses, ...

Afghanistan is grappling with one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises. Nearly half the population needs humanitarian assistance, the health care system is collapsing, increasingly extreme ...

The United Nations says use oppression of Afghan women by the interim government in Kabul has put Afghanistan future in jeopardy. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk told the ...