"The Taliban have removed a lot of content from school textbooks," said Sardar Mohammad Rahimi, who served as Afghanistan's deputy minister of education until the Taliban took over in August 2021.

As Sue Gray joins the board of the Friends of Afghan Women Network, co-founder Shabnam Nasimi argues that the exclusion of Afghan women is not inevitable. It is the result of choices by those in power ...

Today, for millions of young women and girls in Afghanistan, education is not just a right — it is an act of defiance. Since the Taliban regained control in 2021, access to learning has been brutally ...

Amin Ahmadi says Afghan women have grounds to sue Sheri Benard for denying the ongoing gender apartheid in Afghanistan.

The Taliban issued a message on International Women’s Day, saying Afghan women live in security with their rights protected, even as the UN condemned ongoing employment and education bans.

"It's a constant reminder of the education I crave." The possibility of online studies is a luxury for her. "The cost of the internet is very high in Afghanistan," Noor says. "Most families cannot ...

The United Nations called on Afghanistan’s radical Taliban leaders Wednesday to refrain from implementing a recently reported decree that prohibits women from pursuing medical education in the ...

Sue Gray was sacked in October after losing a bitter power struggle with Sir Keir Starmer’s elections chief Morgan McSweeney ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Frozan Ahmadzai is one of 200,000 Afghan women who have the Taliban’s permission to work. She should have graduated from university this year in pursuit of her dream of ...