Mahbouba Seraj, president of the Afghan Women’s Network and a longtime advocate for women’s rights, says the Taliban have already restricted women’s freedoms since taking over the country, despite ...

When high-profile Afghan women’s rights activist Mahbouba Seraj received Finland’s International Gender Equality Prize in the country’s second-largest city, Tampere, on Dec. 11, she knew the ...

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TAMPERE, Finland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Finland’s Prime Minister Petteri Orpo presented the EUR 300,000 Prize to Mahbouba Seraj, the Executive Director of the Afghan Women Skills Development Center in ...

Afghan women’s rights activist Mahbouba Seraj has described the Taliban’s ban on girls’ education and other restrictions on women as a “crime” and an “apartheid” in a behind-the-scenes documentary ...

The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Women's rights ...

As the world eagerly awaits the Norwegian Nobel Institute's announcement Friday of the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Afghan women have a stake in the results. Though official nominee names remain ...

I was born in Afghanistan in 1948. My aunt chose my name. Mahbouba means “beloved”. If you take the “a” off the end, it becomes a man’s name. I didn’t like my name in the beginning – why would I be ...

There are so many things to admire about Mahbouba Seraj. In 2003, she left a comfortable life in the U.S. to return to her native Afghanistan. There, she fought for the rights of women at a time when ...

As a pioneer of Afghanistan’s women’s rights movement, Mahbouba Seraj realized in the run-up to the Taliban’s takeover in 2021 that her fight for gender equality could become a lost cause. The Taliban ...