With the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) increasing restrictions on women and the closure of Afghan girls’ secondary and high schools, the EU Special Representative for...
EU’s special envoy to Afghanistan said on Thursday he was told by officials of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) that there will be positive news on...
The acting Minister of Education says that currently 20,000 schools are open to girls and boys across the country and that 10 million children and youths...
Despite the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s (IEA) decision to suspend schooling for teenage girls, Human Rights Watch found that a number of girls’ schools, mostly in...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has expressed concern about the continued closure of secondary and high schools for girls in Afghanistan, saying “education should not...
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Afghanistan, Tarig Ali Bakhiet, held a virtual meeting on Tuesday morning with Washington’s special envoy...
Afghan clerics (Ulema), school teachers and women’s activists have called on the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) to reopen schools for all girls as soon as...
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said on Tuesday that Afghanistan is the only country in world which denies girls an education. “Only one...
The window of opportunity to negotiate for the rights of Afghan women is rapidly closing, Amnesty International warned on Friday. Yamini Mishra, Amnesty International’s South Asia...
Eight months after schools in Afghanistan closed, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) reopened education facilities on Wednesday, but dealt a bitter blow to teenage girls...
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) will allow girls around Afghanistan to return to class when high schools open next week, an education official said on...
Afghanistan’s education ministry is planning to segregate schools by gender, officials said on Sunday. There will be schools only for boys and there will be schools...
Acting Education Minister Mawlavi Noorullah Munir this week visited southern Helmand province ahead of the new school year in tropical provinces and said the Ministry would...
Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), said all schools and universities would reopen for girls next year. Addressing a gathering of...
India’s government has shut down schools indefinitely and urged people to work from home as air pollution levels in the capital reached dangerous highs. Delhi, which...
Ministry of Education (MoE) officials said Monday that plans to reopen schools for girls from Grade 7 have not yet been finalized. Dr Arfan, spokesman for...
The United Nations Children’s Fund has welcomed the move to reopen secondary schools in Afghanistan, but stressed that girls must not be left out UNICEF has...
The Afghan government announced Saturday that the ministries of public health, higher education and education have agreed that class-based lectures for university and college students will...
Save the Children has called for all parties in the escalating conflict in Afghanistan to abide by international humanitarian law and ensure children and schools do...
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif condemned Saturday’s bombing close to a girls school in Kabul city and called on all Afghans to end the violence....