Higher education was abolished for Afghan women when the Taliban took over Afghanistan after U.S. troops withdrew in 2021. 148 women enrolled at Asian University for Women fled Afghanisan to continue ...

According to UNESCO, after 2021, at least 1.4 million girls were expelled from schools. Denying an entire generation ...

When the Taliban fell from power in Afghanistan in 2001, women were once again allowed to go to school after being banned since 1996. I, along with World Bank education expert Raja Bentaouet Kattan ...

Higher education was abolished for Afghan women when the Taliban took over Afghanistan after U.S. troops withdrew in 2021. Nearly 150 students enrolled at Asian University for Women in Bangladesh, who ...

Shortly after the Taliban banned women from attending universities in Afghanistan in December 2022, we spoke with three students who’d been forced to leave their schools. All were heartbroken to have ...

United Nations – After two years of attempted talks with the Taliban aimed at lifting its bans on secondary and university education and work for women in Afghanistan, the U.N. is proposing a plan to ...

The Taliban’s return to Kabul in the summer of 2021 sent shock waves through the university system. Students at Bamyan University, where I was chancellor at the time, fled back to their homes in rural ...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights affirms that education is a fundamental human right for everyone. Yet since September 2021, the return to school for all Afghan girls over the age of 12 has ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s ...

This photo essay is part of a yearlong Chronicle visual series that highlights the challenges facing first-generation students and others. The series is part of the Different Voices of Student Success ...

Since seizing power, the Taliban has appointed its foot soldiers, commanders, and leaders as ministers and the heads of state-run institutions in Afghanistan, including universities and hospitals. The ...

Deputy Minister of Academic Affairs at Afghanistan’s Ministry of Higher Education, Osman Babury recounts how the country has rebuilt its education system over the last 12 years and what the government ...