Paul Klouman Bekken, Norway’s charge d’affaires to Afghanistan, met with former president Hamid Karzai on Wednesday to discuss the current situation in the country. In the...
Wednesday, March 20, ushered in the start of the new school year in Afghanistan, but to the disappointment of girls across the country, there was still...
Former president Hamid Karzai on the occasion of International Women’s Day once again called on the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan to reopen the doors of schools...
UN experts on Friday expressed concern at numerous reports that scores of women and girls in Afghanistan have been arbitrarily detained and subjected to ill-treatment since...
Acting Minister of Higher Education Neda Mohammad Nadim says securing the rights of women and girls, especially their right to education, is one of the obligations...
The head of a Dubai-based conglomerate on Wednesday said Afghanistan’s Islamic Emirate authorities had stopped around 100 women from traveling to the United Arab Emirates where...
Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, deputy foreign minister for political affairs, said on the second anniversary of the return to power of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan...
Sirajul Haq, Chief of Pakistan’s Islamist political party Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) says the daughters of some ministers of the Islamic Emirate are studying in foreign universities and...
Around 60 Afghan girls were hospitalized after being poisoned at their school in northern Afghanistan, police said on Monday. “Some unknown people entered a girls’ …...
The United Nations has renewed its call for Afghanistan’s Taliban to immediately reopen schools to teenage girls, saying the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) has no...
Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has called on the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) to reverse restrictions on women and girls in the country. Speaking...
The United Nations Office in Afghanistan (UNAMA) says that within a month, the new school year starts and schools and universities will open across Afghanistan, but...
The Ministry of Higher Education of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) on Saturday issued a new decree banning female students from taking this year’s university...
The United Nations cultural agency UNESCO said on Thursday it has decided to dedicate the 2023 International Day of Education (January 24) to Afghan girls and women. On...
Qatar has vowed to stand with Afghan women amid the “irrational” restrictions imposed on them by the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, Qatar’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed...
A delegation from the Ministry of Higher Education of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) met with Qatari officials in Doha on Tuesday to discuss challenges...
Eleven members of the United Nations Security Council called on the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) to reverse work and education bans imposed on women and...
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) has set up a commission made up of several ministries to find a solution to the issue of girls’ education...
Afghanistan’s Deputy Prime Minister Mawlavi Abdul Kabir said at a meeting with the Secretary-General’s Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan, Markus Potzel, that learning religious and modern...
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk called on the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) to revoke their policies targeting women and girls in...