The United Nations in Afghanistan has called on everyone to take concrete actions to end violence against women. Marking the International Day for the Elimination of...
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...
UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore said this week she is “deeply concerned by reports that child marriage in Afghanistan is on the rise”. In a statement...
The captain of the Afghan women’s wheelchair basketball team made her debut for her new Spanish side on Saturday to cheers and applause just over a...
Afghan girls should return to school as soon as possible, former president Hamid Karzai said in an interview on Monday, stressing this is a cause he...
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...
Afghanistan’s acting higher education minister said on Sunday gender segregation would be enforced in universities and that protocols were being put into place so that women...
Former President George W. Bush on Wednesday criticized the withdrawal of NATO troops from Afghanistan and said civilians were being left to be “slaughtered” by the...
The bodies of two young women employed by Afghan Film in Kabul, who had been missing since Saturday’s explosion, were finally tracked down by their families...
While donor countries to Afghanistan say they want to keep protecting the human rights of women and girls, a bill introduced in the United States Senate...
The death toll from a series of blasts outside a school in PD13 capital Kabul rose to 53, the Ministry of Interior said on Sunday. According...
The World Bank has approved an additional $25 million grant from the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) to help increase equitable access to primary and secondary...
The World Bank on Thursday approved the allocation of an additional $25 million in financing from the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) to increase access to...
The Afghan Ministry of Education (MoE) has made a U-turn on the ban it imposed last week on schoolgirls over the age of 12 from singing...
Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) said in a statement on Thursday that the Ministry of Education was in violation of Afghan laws, Child Rights and...