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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The Taliban's swift takeover of Afghanistan has precipitated a severe rollback of women's rights, but journalist and activist Mahbouba Seraj believes that the push for gender equality in her home ...

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 ...

It's been four months since the Taliban took control in Afghanistan. NPR's A Martinez checks back with Mahbouba Seraj, an Afghan women's rights activist to see what every day life is like now. Back in ...

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 ...

FRANCE 24 spoke to Mahbouba Seraj, a leading women's rights activist in Afghanistan. She told us the Taliban have to "give in" on "red lines" such as women's access to education and work in order to ...

En Afghanistan, les talibans assurent que les collégiennes et lycéennes reviendront en cours, tout comme les étudiantes dans les universités privées. Néanmoins, «les talibans n’avaient pas tenu leurs ...