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...
Last year’s earthquake in Herat not only had a devastating impact on quake-hit victims, who lost loved ones and their homes, but also on children as...
The edicts of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) against women and girls are keeping Afghanistan poor and aid dependent, and forcing Afghan families to leave...
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...
On the eve of the start of the new academic year, Afghanistan’s former president Hamid Karzai has once again called on the Islamic Emirate to reopen...
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...
Afghanistan’s former president Hamid Karzai has once again called for girls and women to get an education. In a post on X on Tuesday, Karzai said...
The Ministry of Education has removed topics deemed against Islamic rites and Afghan culture from the primary school curriculum. In an interview with Radio Television of...
Officials in the provincial directorate of education in Nangarhar have said that children who returned from Pakistan are being enrolled in public schools. The children are...
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...
Iran’s supreme leader said on Monday that if a series of suspected poisonings at girls’ schools are proven to be deliberate the culprits should be sentenced...
The European Union’s special envoy for Afghanistan, Tomas Niklasson, has expressed hope that dialogue among Afghans will take place inside their country. “I would hope that...
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...
Following the international and domestic outcry over the suspension of higher education for women, security officials are trying to resolve the issue in consultation with senior...
Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), has said that there will be good news on girls’ education in the near future....
A number of girls in Herat on Wednesday called for the reopening of schools for students above the sixth grade. Holding a painting exhibition, the girls...
Former president Hamid Karzai said in an interview this week that Afghan girls should return to school immediately, stressing that education was needed to help the...
A senior official of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) has said that the financial crisis is the main reason for girls’ schools being closed. “I...
At least one participant at a major gathering of religious scholars in Kabul on Thursday called for secondary schools for girls to reopen. “They will learn...