Deputy Foreign Minister Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai has said that education was girls right and efforts were underway to reopen the doors of educational institutes on their faces, according to a statement on Monday.
Organisations working in Afghan refugee villages in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province have been asked to prioritise the creation of higher secondary schools for girls. The call came in a research study, which indicates a lack of higher secondary opportunities…
Launching a national campaign for girls’ education, speakers of a Titter space said the caretaker government of Afghanistan has failed to convince the Afghans on the issue. A Twitter space was organized on Monday during the launch of…
UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed has termed ban on girls’ education in Afghanistan as one of the gravest challenge of the time. Addressing a session of UN Commission on Population and Development Mohammed began by highlighting the situation…
Some families in western Ghor province have said psychological illness among their daughters were on the raise due to the closure of schools and asked the ‘Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’ (IEA) government to reopen schools above class six…
Secondary and university education for Afghan women will resume once the system is reformed, says an Islamic Emirate diplomat. Afghan Consular General Hafiz Mohibullah insisted the IEA had not banned women's education in Afghanistan. The postponement was aimed…
After being banned from higher education, girls have been prevented from attending tuition classes in Kabul, tutors said on Thursday. Ali Mohammad, a teacher at Sitara Tuition Center in Koti Sanagi area, said since yesterday girls were not…
An international conference to garner global support for Afghan women’s access to education is being held in Indonesia, the US Department of State says. In a statement, the US Department of State said: “Special Envoy for Afghan Women,…
Acting Education Minister Maulvi Noorullah Munir on Sunday said the residents of remote areas were against girls’ education as they did not want their adult daughters to go to school. Maulvi Munir talked to journalists during his visit…
EU special representative for Afghanistan Thomas Nicholson has said the opening of girls' schools in Afghanistan is a priority and other human rights issues will not be respected until schools are opened. The caretaker government postponed the opening…
Acting Education Minister Noorullah Munir has said that cultural restraints were the main reason behind the closure of girls' schools. During his trip to Khost City, the capital of southeastern Khost province Munir said: “Acting government is…
A number of women in Kabul on Sunday asked the government to reopen girls schools above sixth grade. Holding a protest meeting, the women said the government should not deprive a large segment of the society from education.…
Almost a month since the Taliban extended the ban on secondary school girls attending classes, almost 80% of girls have been denied their right to education in provinces in Afghanistan where secondary schools have remained closed for girls, Save…
Religious scholars have once again called for the lifting all restrictions on girls' education and the reopening of secondary schools for female students. . The Assembly of Religious Scholars in Afghanistan,calling girls’education a fundamental right, asked the Taliban…
Some men and women religious scholars in capital Kabul have asked acting government to allow girls to go to schools. Religious scholar Abdul Sattar Hayat said government should never close schools on girls. Representing the Afghanistan Religious Scholars…
Some female 12th grade students in Kabul, whose studies were disrupted by last year’s political changes and the outbreak of the coronavirus, completed a two-month course to prepare for the university entrance exam. The course was organised by…
Intelligence chief for central Bamyan province on Thursday stressed on education of boys and girls and criticized the performance of the Education Ministry in the past 20 years. Mawlavi Mehdi was addressing Fatimia school students in the…
KABUL (MoE) to support girls’ education in rural areas, the British ambassador in Kabul said on Thursday. Karen Pierce, who signed an agreement with the MoE, said the UK government was working together with the MoE to achieve progress in…
