By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi December 27, 2023 The Taliban’s hard-line Islamist government in Afghanistan has eliminated the Monitoring and Evaluation Department in the Education Ministry, a move that threatens the jobs of more than 5,000 people in Kabul and across the country and further erodes secular education in Afghanistan. The department was tasked with monitoring the
Khaama: The head of the Women’s Rights Division at Human Rights Watch reacted to reports about the education of girls in religious schools, stating that these schools are not an ‘acceptable substitute’ for public schools. Heather Barr said it seems Roza Otunbayeva is ‘ready for a major and deeply harmful compromise’ in the absence of
Ayaz Gul VOA News December 21, 2023 ISLAMABAD — The United States and human rights defenders Thursday renewed a call for Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban to allow female students to return to universities and ensure that women have access to education at all levels. This week marks one year since the exclusively male Taliban government abruptly suspended
Khaama: In a concerning move, the Taliban’s Ministry of Higher Education has issued a directive to private universities in Afghanistan to purge their libraries of non-Hanafi Islamic texts, including Shia and other minority religious books. This mandate represents an intensification of the Taliban’s effort to enforce a singular Sunni Hanafi Islamic perspective across educational institutions.
Ayaz Gul VOA News December 9, 2023 ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan’s Taliban government denounced the United States Saturday for imposing fresh sanctions against two of its leaders for human rights abuses, saying that pressure and restrictive measures do not help solve problems. The response came a day after the U.S. Treasury Department placed sanctions against 20 people
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi December 8, 2023 Hundreds of thousands of sixth-grade girls in Afghanistan attended the last day of the school year, many with tears in their eyes as they face an uncertain future because of Taliban policies that forbid them from further schooling and restrict their basic human rights. “These last few days of our
The Guardian (UK): The Taliban is causing “irreversible damage” to Afghanistan’s education system through the reintroduction of corporal punishment, curriculum changes and the use of unqualified teachers to replace women, most of whom have been barred from schools, Human Rights Watch has warned. Click here to read more (external link). Related HRW: “Schools are Failing
8am: The Ministry of Higher Education, under Taliban control, has instructed all universities in the country to purge their libraries of books from the republic era and replace them with the book “Seerat”, or the prophetic biography. A copy of the ministry’s letter has been made available to the Hasht-e Subh Daily, revealing that the
Akmal Dawi VOA News November 21, 2023 Nineteen-year-old Dewa — not her real name — had an admission letter to an undergraduate college program in the United States and a scholarship covering all her expenses. But the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, rejected her student visa application, saying they believed she was intending to immigrate.
By Khujasta Kabiri, Fayeza Ibrahimi Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty November 15, 2023 Since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, thousands of Afghan families have fled to neighboring Pakistan. Some escaped their homeland so that their daughters could continue their education, following the Taliban’s ban on women attending university and teenage girls from going to school.