KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — For six hours every day after school, Nahideh works in a cemetery, collecting water from a nearby ...

Afghanistan’s pioneering female tour guides are opening up the country for tourists - Girls are banned from education above ...

Girls in Afghanistan turn to religious schools for learning after being banned from formal education beyond sixth grade, according ...

On June 11, 2024, girls attend primary school in Kabul, Afghanistan. Since September 2021, the Taliban has barred the country's girls from attending secondary school, robbing them of their right ...

Afghanistan is seeing the emergence of local female tour guides, in a country whose Taliban government imposes the world’s ...

The U.N. General Assembly has adopted a resolution over U.S. objections calling on Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to reverse ...

More than 1 million girls are affected by the ban, according to the U.N. children’s agency. Afghanistan is the sole country with such restrictions on education.

To facilitate girls’ education in rural Afghanistan, a UNICEF cash assistance program helps low-income families afford books, school supplies and more. Saeed Khanum stands with two of her six ...

FILE - A girl reads a book in her classroom on the first day of the new school year, in Kabul, Saturday, March 25, 2023. Afghanistan’s schools open Wednesday for the new educational year, while ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban have freed an Afghan activist who campaigned for the education of girls, a local nonprofit organization said Thursday. Matiullah Wesa was arrested seven months ...

Several organizations are trying to find new ways to offer basic education to women and girls in Afghanistan. Since August 2021, UNESCO shifted to community-based literacy and skills development ...

Afghanistan's Taliban government banned girls from secondary school and university three years ago – the only country in the ...