The UN in Afghanistan, UNAMA, said Wednesday it was deeply disappointed that for the fourth consecutive year, girls have again been denied access to secondary education....
United Nations spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric warned Monday that over four million Afghan girls could be deprived of an education by 2030 if the Islamic Emirate of...
Hamid Karzai, the former president of Afghanistan, says the demand of Afghan girls for the reopening of schools and universities is their fundamental right and adds...
Afghanistan’s former president Hamid Karzai on Wednesday called on the Islamic Emirate to immediately overturn a reported ban on girls getting a medical education. According to...
The Islamic Emirate has however stated in the past that the issue of education of girls and women is an internal matter and countries should not...
The UN’s Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, Roza Otunbayeva, has expressed concern over the human rights situation of Afghan women while presenting her report on the...
Fourteen thousand Afghan women are currently studying through the Woman Online University which offers courses across 14 faculties for free. The university has 450 professors and...
A US State Department official says that in all their engagements with the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) they advocate for girls’ education. Addressing a press...
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s (IEA) Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai says Afghanistan cannot progress without education. Speaking at an event...
UK-based Save the Children organization has called on the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) to reopen schools for girls when the new academic year starts next...
Afghanistan’s all-girl robotics team scooped two awards at this year’s world championships in Switzerland. The competition was held in Genoa, Switzerland last week and saw 162...
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...