KABUL (Pajhwok): UN Secretary General’s Associate Spokesperson Florencia Soto Nino has said the acting Afghan government’s move to stop Afghan girls from travelling . .
Engineering student Somaya Faruqi had to flee Afghanistan to continue her studies after the Taliban government returned to power two years ago and banned more than 1.1 million girls and women from schools and universities.- 'Tragic' -
In 2021, only one month after returning to power for the first time in 20 years, the Taliban authorities banned girls from attending secondary school, before closing university doors to them in December 2022 and then heavily restricting their participation in the w
The U.N.'s education envoy on Tuesday said the Taliban's denial of education and employment to Afghan girls and women "should count as a crime against humanity."
Two years after the de facto authorities took power in Afghanistan and banned girls' access to secondary education, Education Cannot Wait (ECW) – the UN global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises – launches the #AfghanGirlsVoices campaign.