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

It’s been more than four years since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan - and according to human rights organisations, ...

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.

UNICEF and UNESCO warn that Afghanistan faces a deep learning crisis, with most children unable to read and millions of girls ...

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 ...

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 ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — For six hours every day after school, Nahideh works in a cemetery, collecting water from a nearby shrine to sell to mourners visiting loved ones’ graves. She dreams of ...

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 ...

A senior Taliban figure has urged the group's leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy. Sher Abbas ...