When the Taliban fell from power in Afghanistan in 2001, women were once again allowed to go to school after being banned since 1996. I, along with World Bank education expert Raja Bentaouet Kattan ...

Former Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai urged authorities to reopen schools and universities to girls, saying education beyond sixth ...

Afghan refugees pass by an outdoor girls’ classroom in Torkham, Afghanistan, Nov. 18, 2023. Credit: AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi In the rugged terrain of Afghanistan, amid a backdrop of perpetual struggle ...

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The Human Rights Activists Union has warned that Afghanistan is facing a dire situation, describing the Taliban’s restrictions on education as a form of cultural genocide that silences voices and ...

United Nations – After two years of attempted talks with the Taliban aimed at lifting its bans on secondary and university education and work for women in Afghanistan, the U.N. is proposing a plan to ...

Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a female law graduate reports on the Taliban closure of Afghan ...

The U.S. decision to leave Afghanistan in the way that it did last year has had terrible consequences. The most consequential of all may prove to be the Taliban’s overhaul of Afghanistan’s public ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The school year in Afghanistan started Wednesday but without girls whom the Taliban barred from attending classes beyond the sixth grade, making it the only country with restrictions ...

The choice to flee Afghanistan was not an easy one for Rangina Hamidi. When I spoke with her last year, she was still in Kabul, debating what she and her husband should do as Taliban forces captured ...

The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) has opened a newly constructed school building in northern Afghanistan ...