According to UNICEF, 2.2 million girls are currently deprived of their right to secondary education, with hundreds of ...

On World Education Day, UNICEF and UNESCO warned that 2.2 million Afghan girls are barred from education, threatening Afghanistan’s future development and stability.

Organizations are working hard to circumvent the Taliban's ban on higher education for women and girls, which has now been in place for over four years. One advocate says that women and girls have ...

Afghan women are trained as policewomen in a classroom of a police barracks. The Russian parliament has further tightened the "Foreign Agent Law," with individuals listed by Moscow as "foreign agents" ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — One after the other, the opportunities vanished. Like so many other Afghan women, Sodaba could do little but watch as her country’s new Taliban government imposed a ...

While the U.S. government’s recent attacks on higher education may look much different from the Taliban’s, there are some parallels and useful lessons. The Taliban’s return to Kabul in the summer of ...

Four years after the Taliban’s return to power in Kabul, Afghanistan faces a paradox. To the outside world, the regime’s restrictions — particularly on women and civil liberties — make positive change ...

When the Taliban stormed back into power in August 2021, the world watched in horror as the regime instantly began erasing rights. Now, following a “total internet blackout,” according to NetBlocks, ...