For six hours every day after school, Nahideh works in a cemetery, collecting water from a nearby shrine to sell to mourners ...

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

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

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 ...

With schools shut to girls beyond primary level, many in Afghanistan are turning to madrassas for religious education, as ...

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.

As Afghanistan’s school year starts, more than 1 million girls still barred from education by Taliban A girl reads a book in her classroom in Kabul in 2023.

Why it matters Twenty years after the first ban on women’s education ended, the Taliban resumed power in 2021 and has once again banned girls and women from attending school after the sixth grade.

Over 2.5 million girls and young women are denied secondary education, a number that will increase to 3 million in a few months.

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 ...

However, they made no progress in creating said conditions. When they ruled Afghanistan in the 1990s, they also banned girls’ education.