U.S.-backed initiatives that allowed thousands of Afghan women to study online or abroad are in jeopardy after Trump’s suspension of foreign aid.
who publicly condemned the group’s ban on education of girls and women, has reportedly fled Afghanistan amid fears of arrest. Sher Abbas Stanikzai, the Taliban’s political deputy at the foreign ...
One of the few officials in Afghanistan’s Taliban government to support reversing the ban on girls’ education appears to have been forced to flee the country. It was just two weeks ago that Mohammad ...
As the world’s focus has shifted to other regions and conflicts — Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war — the ...
The government forbids girls from going to school past 6th grade. The Citizenry brand is supporting 2,500 girls as they attend school in secret locations. This year, 2,500 girls will be able to ...
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA ... end the deprivation of education for millions of Afghan girls and allow them to return to school. “It is a travesty and tragedy ...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Afghanistan has reported that, last year, it distributed educational materials ...
The author is an Afghanistan-based female journalist, trained with Finnish support before the Taliban take-over. Her identity ...
The US has donated nearly US$4 billion to Afghanistan since the Taliban came into power. Gutting USAID will have enormous ...
The Taliban suspended the operation of Afghanistan’s only nationwide women’s radio station after raiding its premises on ...
“We are being unjust to 20 million people,” referring to nearly half of the Afghanistan ... ban on female education, preventing girls and women from attending school beyond the sixth grade ...