Sher Abbas Stanikzai, a senior Taliban official, has publicly called on the group's leadership to lift bans on education for Afghan women a...

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai will attend a summit on girls' education hosted by her native Pakistan, where she was nearly ki...

US special envoy for Afghan women, Rina Amiri, highlighted that the Taliban's restrictions on women in Afghanistan cost the nation over $1 ...

An official in the Education Ministry said Afghan girls of all ages are allowed to study in religious schools known as madrassas, which hav...

The United Nations General Assembly is addressing the rights of Afghan women and children, particularly concerning the Taliban's ban on gir...

The International Criminal Court should prosecute Taliban leaders for a crime against humanity for denying education and employment to Afgh...

The police has informed that around 60 girls from Northern Afghanistan were taken to the hospital after they were poisoned. The attack is s...

The ban on the education of Afghan girls and women has resulted in a surge in the risk of early marriage, violence and abuse in the country...

"We have noted with concern the reports in this regard. India has consistently supported the cause of female education in Afghanistan," Ari...

After the takeover of the country by the Taliban, universities were forced to implement new rules including gender-segregated classrooms an...

Despite promising a softer rule when they seized power last year, the Taliban have ratcheted up restrictions on all aspects of women's live...

Earlier this month, four girls schools above grade 6 in Gardez, the provincial capital, and one in the Samkani district began operating wit...

"As I speak to you today, millions of girls of secondary school age are missing out on education for the 27th consecutive day," Abdi said. ...

During the weekend, the education ministry issued a diktat ordering male teachers and students back to secondary school -- but made no ment...

The hardline Islamist group that stormed to power in mid-August after ousting the Western-back government have vowed to rule differently co...

Dia (10) and Diyana (12), residents of an Afghan enclave in south Delhi, should be learning and playing, but at this tender age, the sister...

Education is the true key to emancipation of the mind; burkhas, hijabs and niqabs are just superficial impediments, just like skirts and tr...