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Eighteen months after ban, classroom doors in Afghanistan must open for Secondary School girls, says Save the Children

As schools across Afghanistan prepare for the new academic year next week, secondary school-aged girls must be allowed to go back to the classroom after an 18-month ban on their education, Save the Children said. more

Afghanistan: Women protest in Kabul to demand for education, work

Kabul: Women in Afghanistan's capital city Kabul on Tuesday protested to demand access to education for women, which has been curtailed ever since Taliban forces snatched power in the ...

Afghanistan now ‘most repressive country’ for women, Security Council hears

New York: Afghanistan under the Taliban remains the “most repressive country in the world [for] women’s rights”, the senior UN official in Kabul told the Security Counci ...

Female employment levels in Afghanistan have fallen steeply since Taliban administration took over in 2021: ILO

Kabul: Female employment levels in Afghanistan have fallen steeply since the Taliban administration took over in 2021, according to new figures released by the International Labour Organi ...

Afghanistan: Women students demonstrate outside Kabul University as males return to classrooms

Kabul: Women gathered outside Kabul University to protest against the Taliban's ban on female education in the war-torn nation and urged male students to reject attending the new acad ...

Afghanistan: Humanitarians await guidelines on women’s role in aid operations

New York: A UN-led group of humanitarians are hoping that the Taliban will allow Afghan women to again work with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on the ground following last month&r ...

Afghanistan: Taliban bars women from taking university entrance examinations

Kabul: The Taliban administrators of Afghanistan have issued a new decree by which they banned female students from taking university entrance exams this year in all public and private un ...

Afghanistan: Top UN delegation tells Taliban to end confinement, deprivation, abuse of women’s rights

New York: The UN deputy chief and head of UN Women have conveyed a direct message to Afghanistan’s Taliban leadership calling on them to put the good of the country first and end re ...

Afghanistan: Taliban now directs women owners to close their shops in Balkh

Balkh: Several women, who run shops at a market in Balkh region of Afghanistan, have been directed by the Taliban's vice and virtue department to close their shops by next Thursday, m ...

UN and top aid officials slam Afghan rulers’ NGO ban for women

New York: Top UN agency officials and civil society organization heads joined forces on Thursday to urge Afghanistan’s de facto authorities to reverse their ban on women working for ...