The new school year began on Saturday in Afghanistan but for the fourth consecutive year ... and prohibited the mixing of men and women, as well as endorsing the enforced wearing of the hijab. The ...

In January, one senior official left Afghanistan after speaking out against the ban, which has denied education to more than ...

The appeal by UNICEF comes as a new school year began in Afghanistan without girls beyond sixth grade. The ban, said the ...

KABUL, Afghanistan--Noura ... But the 20-year-old Afghan woman could not defy her country’s Taliban rulers. They have not just banned all sports for women and girls, they have actively ...

The new school year began on Saturday in Afghanistan but ... the mixing of men and women, as well as endorsing the enforced wearing of the hijab. The Afghan Centre for Human Rights calls the ...

Zahra’s activism came at a great personal cost. Pregnant with her youngest daughter, Elisa, she had to leave her eldest daughter, Mahsa, behind temporarily for three years to escape the Taliban’s ...

A 15-year-old girl reads a magazine in Afghanistan. Higher education for girls is forbidden under the ruling Islamist Taliban. A new school year has begun in Afghanistan with more than 2.2 million ...

FILE - Afghan women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File) ...

The U.N. Security Council told Afghanistan’s Taliban ... honor and legal rights of women were a priority for the country, in accordance with Islamic law and Afghan culture and traditions.

the Taliban has banned women and girls from secondary education in Afghanistan.