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Category Archives: Education

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Taliban Violently Disperses Women’s Protest Against University Ban

22nd December, 2022 · admin

RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi December 22, 2022 Taliban security forces have used violence and arrested several people as they dispersed a protest by Afghan women against a ruling that bans female students from universities. Afghanistan’s Taliban announced the decision to forbid women from universities late on December 20 in a letter from the Islamist group’s education ministry to

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Posted in Afghan Women, Education, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Taliban war on women |
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‘A Bird With No Wings’: Afghan Women React With Despair To Taliban’s University Ban

21st December, 2022 · admin

By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi December 21, 2022 The Taliban’s ban on women attending university hit like a bombshell to current and future students, despite the consistent erosion of the rights of women and girls since the hard-line Islamist group seized power last year. The dire news, delivered by the Taliban’s Higher Education Ministry in a statement

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Posted in Afghan Women, Education, Human Rights, Society, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Taliban war on women |
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Taliban Ban Women From Universities in Afghanistan

21st December, 2022 · admin

Ayaz Gul VOA News December 20, 2022 ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders Tuesday ordered public and private universities across the country to immediately suspend female students access to higher education until further notice. A spokesman for the higher education ministry, Hafiz Zia Hashami, said the order had been formally delivered to all universities in line with

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Posted in Afghan Women, Education, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Taliban war on women |
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The Taliban Higher Education Minister Who Is Against Female Education

15th December, 2022 · admin

The #Taliban Higher Education Minister Mulawi Nida Muhammad Nadeem says Among the #mujahideen , anyone who has carried out many explosions, we do not take the university exam from him. pic.twitter.com/Pr0wfGQAFu — Abdulhaq Omeri (@AbdulhaqOmeri) December 4, 2022 By Abubakar Siddique Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 15, 2022 One of the Taliban’s main goals since seizing

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Posted in Afghan Women, Education, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Nida Mohammad Nadim, Taliban war on women |
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Taliban Intends to Make Money and Credit by Holding the 12th-Grade Exams for Girls

7th December, 2022 · admin

8am: The Taliban have ordered that the 12th-grade exams of female students must be held in one day. All 12th-grade girls are going to appear in the exams today without having preparation as they have only been asked to contact their schools on Monday to register for the exam along with a photograph, ID card,

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Posted in Afghan Children, Afghan Women, Corruption, Education, Taliban | Tags: Corrupt Taliban, Life under Taliban rule |
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UN Experts: Taliban Curbs on Women Amount to Crime Against Humanity

26th November, 2022 · admin

Ayaz Gul VOA News November 25, 2022 ISLAMABAD — A group of independent experts at the United Nations has warned that Taliban restrictions on women’s rights and freedoms in Afghanistan could amount to a “crime against humanity.” The experts demanded in a joint statement Friday that the Taliban treatment of women and girls “should be investigated

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Posted in Afghan Women, Education, Human Rights, Taliban, UN-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Taliban war on women, War Crime |
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US Campaigners Raise Funds for Afghan Blast Survivor

23rd November, 2022 · admin

Akmal Dawi VOA News November 22, 2022 The explosion at Kaaj educational center in Kabul was so powerful that it lifted 17-year-old Fatima Amiri off the ground before thrusting her slim body several meters away. “I did not faint,” Amiri told VOA over the phone from her home in Kabul. “I ran to a nearby

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Posted in Afghan Women, Education, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Ethnic descrimination, Fatima Amiri, Hazaras, Life under Taliban rule |
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A year in, the Taliban escalates its war against girls’ education in Afghanistan

21st November, 2022 · admin

LA Times: The group claims it has no interest in restoring its 1990s regime, when girls were banned from school and almost all jobs, and endured corporal punishment for violations such as not wearing a burqa in public. Yet every few months, new decrees are issued about which careers women may have, how far they

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Posted in Afghan Children, Afghan Women, Education, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule |
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Many Afghan Children Out of School And Working on Street

20th November, 2022 · admin

Tolo News: As the World Children Day is being celebrated on November 20th around the globe, children in Afghanistan are bearing the worst of the humanitarian crisis. Fatima, 8, is an orphan, who is selling bread on a street in capital city of Kabul. Fatima is in the second grade but she sees no clear

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Posted in Afghan Children, Afghan Women, Economic News, Education, Everyday Life, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Taliban government failure |
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Afghan Who Lost Her Eye In Bombing Wishes Female Students Could Study What They Want

19th November, 2022 · admin

Fatima Amiri lost an eye in a suicide attack on a private college in Kabul on September 30. Just two weeks later, she passed her university entrance exams and plans to study computer science. The Taliban has barred female students from choosing many other university courses, including journalism, economics, engineering, and many social and natural

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Posted in Afghan Children, Afghan Women, Education, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule |
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