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

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Take 16-year-old Sofia Orya, who lives in Kabul. She had to leave 10th grade in August 2021. (Before the university ban, the Taliban barred girls from attending school beyond sixth grade.) ...

Taliban security forces in Afghanistan's capital Kabul on Wednesday enforced a higher education ban for women by blocking their access to universities. ... a spokesman for Kabul University, ...

Nicole Deitelhoff, a peace and conflict researcher from the University of Frankfurt, criticized Germany’s Afghanistan policy, ...

Taliban bans women in Afghanistan from university education 05:34. The international community has made the right to education for women a key condition in negotiations over aid and recognition of ...

For a group of roughly two dozen displaced Afghan university students, the future feels uncertain. They’ve already uprooted their lives once, fleeing Kabul – where they were studying at the ...

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 ...

I ask this for the same reason that Rina Amiri, the U.S. special envoy for Afghan women, girls and human rights, wrote on Twitter last month: “Those who fear a radicalized Afghanistan should be ...

Ismail Mashal, a university professor from Kabul, ripped up one of his university diplomas during a live appearance on TOLO TV in a video posted on social media on December 27.

Afghanistan's Taliban government banned girls from secondary school and university three years ago – the only country in the world to do so. With no option for higher education, many girls and women ...