Ayaz Gul VOA News February 2, 2022 ISLAMABAD — Public universities in warmer provinces of Afghanistan reopened Wednesday to both female and male students for the first time since the Islamist Taliban took control of the war-torn country last August. Witnesses said university administrations enforced gender segregation in line with directives from the Taliban government, including
Ayaz Gul VOA News January 30, 2022 ISLAMABAD — The Taliban announced Sunday they would start reopening all public universities in Afghanistan from this week, more than five months after the Islamist group retook control of the war-torn country. Abdul Baqi Haqqani, the minister for higher education, said by video that students in Afghan provinces with
Tolo News: The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) called on the US Department of State to reconsider the decision to suspend the Fulbright program for Afghanistan, which provides talented Afghan youth opportunities to build their future. Sam Mort, Chief of Communication, Advocacy and Civic Engagement for UNICEF Afghanistan, on Twitter expressed disappointment over the suspension
Tolo News: Heather Barr, associate women’s rights director at Human Rights Watch (HRW), in a special interview with TOLO news’ Hamid Bahram said the international community should “never recognize” the current Afghan government as long as it is imposing the “worst discrimination in the world” against women seeking an education. Click here to read more (external
AP: Zabihullah Mujahid, who is also the Taliban’s deputy minister of culture and information, said their education departments are looking to open classrooms for all girls and women following the Afghan New Year, which starts on March 21. Afghanistan, like neighboring Iran, observers the Islamic solar Hijri Shamsi calendar. Click here to read more (external
Tolo News: At least 50 schools have closed in recent years amid severe conflict in the northern province of Kunduz. The head of the provincial education department, Mawlawi Ismail Abu Ahmad, said that over 30,000 students have been deprived of schooling because their classrooms were in conflict areas in clashes between the former security forces
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi Abubakar Siddique December 22, 2021 Dozens of Afghan girls speak in hushed voices as they cram inside a house in the Afghan capital, Kabul. For months, the house has served as a secret school, with around 50 girls attending science, math, and literature classes. They are among the millions of girls who
Ariana: Members of the Haqqani family and Paktia residents have laid the first foundation stone for a new madrassa, that will be named after the network’s founding father Mawlawi Jalaluddin Haqqani. The religious studies school will be built on four acres of land in Gardez city in Paktia province and is being sponsored by local
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 7, 2021 WASHINGTON — Human rights advocate and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai urged the United States to increase its support of Afghan girls and women. “Afghanistan right now is the only country where girls do not have access to secondary education. They are prohibited from learning,” the 24-year-old said
AP: For weeks, girls in the western province of Herat have been back in high school classrooms — the fruit of a unique, concerted effort by teachers and parents to persuade local Taliban administrators to allow them to reopen. Taliban officials never formally approved the reopening after the lobbying campaign, but they also didn’t prevent