US News: The Taliban has cracked down on girls going to school, but Razia Jan, a school leader and activist, hasn’t given up hope. Click here to read more (external link). Related ‘The Taliban cannot erase us’ says winner of the International Women’s Rights award UNESCO: Calls on the Taliban to Reopen Girls’ Schools Immediately,
8am: Local sources in Faizabad, the center of Badakhshan province, have reported that the Taliban’s Education Directorate in the province has ordered its entire staff, by issuing a letter to grow beards and wear hats or turbans during congregational prayers. According to sources, Taliban have warned the department’s employees that they will fire the violators
Qamar Niazi, a teacher from Helmand Province, called RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi to express her distress with the Taliban’s decision to close secondary girls’ schools in Afghanistan just hours after they reopened on March 23. International organizations and world governments have called on the Taliban to reconsider the decision immediately. Related EU: Decision on Girls’ Schools
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty March 28, 2022 The United Nations Security Council has expressed deep concern after the Taliban-led government ordered girls be denied access to high school education amid reports of further restrictions on women and media, including a fresh ban on news bulletins by the BBC and Voice of America (VOA). “The members
Tolo News: Female students in Herat in grades 7-12, who were allowed to participate in classes, were told to stay home as the Islamic Emirate closed secondary and high schools for the girls across Afghanistan. Herat was the only province where female students above the 6th grade were allowed to go to schools for the
Teachers, students & women's rights activists protest today in Kabul against restrictions on girls access to schools. https://t.co/QCnAjAQY2H — UNAMA News (@UNAMAnews) March 26, 2022 Ayaz Gul VOA News March 26, 2022 ISLAMABAD — Dozens of Afghan women, including students, teachers, parents and civil society activists, demonstrated in Kabul Saturday against the Taliban’s decision to keep
Tolo News: The United States abruptly cancelled meetings with the Islamic Emirate in Doha that were set to address key economic issues, officials said on Friday, after Islamic Emirate reversed a decision to allow all girls to return to high school classes. The cancellation of talks was the first concrete sign that the Islamic Emirate’s
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi March 16, 2022 Gender segregation was a hallmark of the Taliban’s brutal regime in Afghanistan in the 1990s, when unrelated men and women were barred from mixing in public places. Since regaining power in August, the militant group has gradually resurrected its discriminatory policies, enforcing strict segregation in universities, government offices, and
The Guardian (UK): Since August, secondary school girls from grade 7 and up have effectively been banned from education. While the Taliban claims the restrictions are temporary, saying they want to create the right Islamic environment for girls to learn, Afghanistan remains the world’s only country where girls are barred from education. Click here to
Tolo News: Earlier the education authorities announced that segregation between the genders is required, and male and female students must attend classes in different shifts. But recently students told TOLO news that they might attend a class only once a week to show their homework and receive assignments. Also, students say experienced professors are in