MEPs are deeply worried by the recent Afghan acting gov decision to indefinitely extend the ban on allowing girls in seventh grade and above to attend school. EU Parliament said on Thursday. In a resolution adopted on Thursday,…
US Special Representative for Afghanistan Thomas West and former president Hamid Karzai have discussed the return of Afghan girls to school. West tweeted that he met Hamid Karzai on Sunday and exchanged with him views on the closure…
The Amnesty International (IA) says the Taliban government's decision to shut secondary schools for girls until further notice has left them "heartbroken" and "disappointed". After the Afghan caretaker government decided to cancel the opening of girls’ high schools,…
Representatives of 10 member states of the UN Security Council issued a joint statement, calling on the Afghan government to reopen schools for all girls. The statement was jointly delivered by the Permanent Representatives of the United Arab…
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said the Afghan caretaker government's decision to stop girls from education is a violation of their rights. As schools reopened on Wednesday, girls above the sixth grade were asked to stay home.…
The acting education minister says the Islamic Emirate is not against girls’ education and they will be allowed to study at schools meeting the required conditions. Noorullah Munir, during a visit to northern Baghlan province, met with government…
Former President Hamid Karzai has congratulated the runner-up of Afghan girls’ robotics team and hoped that the doors of all girls schools would be reopened with the beginning of new academic year in the country. The Afghan girls’…
Government officials say there are hopes that girls' schools and universities will be reopened next solar year, but there will be little changes in the curriculum in religious and social education. ZabihullahMujahid, spokesman for the Islamic Emirate, told…
Forty three people including 23 girls have graduated from the nursing section of Ghazanfar Health Sciences Institute in the capital of western Farah province. Dr. Mahtab Amin, head of the institute, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the…
Information and culture officials of northern Samangan province has announced the graduation of 272 girls from a three-year "accelerated" educational program in the province provided by ACTED organization. ACTED a French organization and operates in Asia and Africa…
Girls have been provided with education opportunity for the first time following the establishment of 50 literacy classes in Kharwar district of central Logar province. Kharwar is a district in Logar where there have been no girls' schools…
Residents of central Bamyan province have welcomed the reopening of high and secondary schools for girls in the province and called on education officials to reopen these schools in other provinces as well. Last week, officials in Bamyan…
The Ministry of Information and Culture on Tuesday said that the government was preparing a policy for safety of female students of high school and women workers would soon return to their jobs. Currently girls of only primary…
The Taliban announced on Tuesday that girls would be allowed to return to school as soon as possible. Deputy Minister of Education Zabihullah Mujahid said: "We are finalising things... it will happen as soon as possible." Earlier in…
Taliban’s acting higher education minister on Sunday said universities would be reopened soon and boys and girls would continue their education in separate classes. Talking to a press conference here, Mualvi Abdul BaqiHaqqani, the higher education minister, said…
Five girls who sell their art works in a shop in the provincial capital of central Bamyan province, ask the government to support their skill and resolve their problems. These girls who have displayed their paintings in…
Around 173,000 girls have been deprived of pursuing their education due to insecurity and lack of schools in southern Ghazni province, an official said on Tuesday. MuhibRahmanAnsar, Ghazni education department head, told Pajhwok Afghan News that thousands…
A number of girls in central Bamyan province do independent work in addition to their pursuit of education. According to a report of the Ministry of Economy, nine million out of 15 million people who are eligible…
Many girls in northern Balkh province have been deprived of education activists said on Monday. The provincial Women’s Affairs Department says it considers restrictions on girls to get education a worst form of violence against women. Meanwhile, the…
Thousands of school-age girls are yet to be enrolled in schools in remote parts of central Logar province due to security problems and cultural restrictions. Mohammad Shapur Arab, spokesman for the Logar education department, told Pajhwok Afghan News…
KABUL plan to reverse the falling number of girls in school. The new initiative -- Education Quality Reform in Afghanistan (EQRA) -- will be placed soon for approval before the World Bank’s executive board in the coming weeks. In a…
Girls in Patu district of central Daikundi province say the lack of female professional teachers, traditional restrictions on women. Zahra Yawari, a resident of the district, said schools in their area were far from homes. She said: “Families…
Tribal elders have decided to fine the families barring daughters from going to school in the Musakhel district of southeastern Khost province, an official said on Sunday. Haji Mandayar Mangal, an influential resident of the district, told…
Two young girls have been murdered by their close relatives in northwestern Badghis province, officials said on Monday. Zarghona Shirzad, provincial Women commander shot dead his young daughter on Monday afternoon in Maqur district. She identified the victim…
