Margaret Besheer VOA News August 15, 2023 NEW YORK — The United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education said Tuesday that the International Criminal Court should investigate and pursue charges against the Taliban for their denial of basic rights to Afghan women and girls. “The legal opinion we have received shows that the denial of education
Abubakar Siddique Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 13, 2023 The education of girls and women is universally accepted in more than 200 countries and territories, including nearly 50 Muslim-majority nations. But Afghanistan’s hard-line Islamist Taliban rulers have banned teenage girls from attending school after the sixth grade since they returned to power two years ago.
AP: The Taliban barred women from campuses last December, triggering global outrage. Girls had been banned from school beyond sixth grade soon after the Taliban returned to power in August 2021. Afghanistan is the only country in the world with bans on female education. Click here to read more (external link).
The Independent (UK): The local Taliban officials have reportedly banned girls over 10 years of age from attending primary school classes in some provinces of Afghanistan in its latest set of restrictions against female education. Officials from the Taliban-ruled Ministry of Education have told the principals of schools and short-term training classes in Ghazni province
AP: As the Taliban swept back into power in Afghanistan, in the summer of 2021, Fahima Sultani and her fellow university students tried for days to get into the Kabul airport, only to be turned away by gun-wielding extremists. “No education, just go back home,” she recalled one shouting. Click here to read more (external
Tolo News: The first round of university examinations of the 1402 solar year was held on Thursday in 11 of 34 provinces without the presence of female students. According to the officials, the examination will be taken in two days, in which at least 24,000 people are attending. Meanwhile, some of the female students who
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi July 19, 2023 Several public university professors have complained that Taliban members and those around them have started taking some of the top positions at universities and other educational institutions in Afghanistan as the Taliban-led government’s Higher Education Ministry increases its control of the school system. According to the professors, some of
8am: Several students in Paktika province complain about the shortage of teachers in local schools, emphasizing that most textbooks remain untaught due to the lack of available teachers. Additionally, other students and residents in the province expressed their concerns about inadequate school facilities. They describe a situation where multiple classes are taught in shared spaces
Khaama: According to the letter sent from the Ministry of Education to Khaama Press on Wednesday, higher teacher training institutions have been eliminated from the Ministry of Education’s organizational structure. The Ministry of Education of the Taliban confirmed the authenticity of the letter issued from the Ministry on Wednesday, claiming that the Teacher Training Centers
Al Jazeera: Scores of bookstores and publishing houses have shut down in the past two years. In the book compound in the Pul-e-Surkh area of Kabul, which I use to frequent before the Taliban takeover, the majority of bookstores have now shut down. On top of that, the Taliban government has imposed high taxes on