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

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 ...

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.

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

One of those visitors is Australian Suzanne Sandral. She originally wanted to see Afghanistan in the 1960s but the pressures ...

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 ...

Consequently, millions of Afghan girls remain deprived of access to schooling. According to a 2023 United Nations report, over 130 million girls worldwide are deprived of access to 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 ...

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

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

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 ...