Afghan refugees pass by an outdoor girls’ classroom in Torkham, Afghanistan, Nov. 18, 2023. Credit: AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi Subscribe for ads-free reading In the rugged terrain of Afghanistan, amid a ...

When Zarqa Yaftali speaks about education, she does so not as a distant advocate, but as someone who once sat on the floor of ...

When the Taliban fell from power in Afghanistan in 2001, women were once again allowed to go to school after being banned since 1996. I, along with World Bank education expert Raja Bentaouet Kattan ...

Four years after Taliban took over Afghanistan and banned education for girl children, Unicef has announced vocational training for 200 girls in Herat province. The programme, organised in partnership ...

The humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan remains one of the most severe in the world, with 28 million people depending on aid to survive. Hostilities between Pakistan and Afghanistan escalated, with ...

While the U.S. government’s recent attacks on higher education may look much different from the Taliban’s, there are some parallels and useful lessons. The Taliban’s return to Kabul in the summer of ...

Since reclaiming power in 2021, the Taliban have systematically denied Afghan girls and women their rights to education, employment, and freedom of movement. Now, as internal divisions shake the ...