Nearly five years on from the school ban, young women say they have waved goodbye to their dreams.

Ted Achilles, a retired businessman who helped found an innovative boarding school for girls in Kabul, Afghanistan, a potentially dangerous undertaking in a country still rife with Taliban militants ...

Richard Lindsay, Britain’s special envoy for Afghanistan, has reaffirmed support for Afghan women and girls during a visit to ...

Afghanistan is the only country in the world that bans girls from attending school beyond the primary level. Education advocate Somaya Faruqi is working with Education Cannot Wait and UNICEF to ...

Last week, my friend Shabana invited me to a small gathering of friends in her house. These parties, small gatherings, are the only option that remains for women in Afghanistan to have a little fun: ...

September 19 marks four years since Afghan girls were barred from secondary schooling in Afghanistan. What began as a “temporary measure” in September 2021 has hardened into the most systematic denial ...

A senior Taliban figure has urged the group’s leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy. Sher Abbas ...