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Over the past few days, reports are circulating on social media that 47 private schools have been allowed to provide secondary education to girls.

SHIBIRGHAN (Pajhwok): A woman has established an educational centre and has enrolled about 100 girls above the sixth grade in Shiberghan City, the capital of

KABUL (Pajhwok): On the International Day of Education, some girls have asked the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) government to reopen girls’ school and universities.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Following the ban on girls’ high and university education, online courses for girls have been increasing, but students call online courses ineffective and

KABUL (Pajhwok): The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in a report says about 118.5 million girls around the world are deprived .

KABUL (Pajhwok): A number of girls have expressed grave concern over their exclusion from the university entrance examination and urged the caretaker government to open

MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): Many girls and women have started weaving carpets in northern Balkh province after the ban on their high and university education remains imposed.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Female high school graduates are being distributed forms to register for upcoming university entrance test locally called ‘Kankoor’ in 31 provinces, including Kabul,

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Ministry of Higher Education has directed all private universities and higher educational institutes in the country to postpone registering girls for the

KABUL (Pajhwok): Girls across Afghanistan are all poised to appear in the grade-12 exam that commences today (Wednesday). The girls passing the examination will .

About 98.8 percent of Afghans support the reopening of schools for girls above sixth grade, finds an online Pajhwok Afghan News survey. Only 1.2 percent of respondents opposed girls’ return to school.

Decades of progress on gender equality and women’s rights in Afghanistan have been wiped out in mere months, said Sima Bahous, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women, on Monday.