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

The Taliban have denied accusations of gender discrimination and human rights violations as Australia, Canada, Germany, and the Netherlands...

At a UN General Assembly event, actor Meryl Streep called attention to the Taliban's restrictions on Afghan women, likening their lack of r...

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

Girls and women in Afghanistan who have been deprived of their education have demanded the reopening of educational institutions in the cou...

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...

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...

Spokesman of the Foreign Ministry, Abdul Qahar Balkhi said, "this suspension is a temporary suspension, and it is not a permanent ban, it h...

Taliban rulers unexpectedly decided against reopening schools Wednesday to girls above the sixth grade, reneging on a promise and opting to...

Secondary school age girls have been out of education for around a year in many provinces. Schools were first closed under the previous US-...

Despite the schools reopening, barriers to girls returning to education remain, with many families suspicious of the Taliban and reluctant ...

In a statement on Sunday, spokesman of the Ministry of Education Aziz Ahmad Reyan said the Taliban is committed and optimistic to reopen sc...

"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. ...

The new government has said that some form of education for girls and women will be permitted, but those parameters have not been clearly d...