When the Taliban fell from power in Afghanistan in 2001, women were once again allowed to go to school after being banned since 1996. I, along with World Bank education expert Raja Bentaouet Kattan ...

A senior Taliban figure has urged the group's leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy. Sher Abbas ...

The U.S. government has condemned the Taliban for ordering the suspension of medical education for women and girls in ...

The European Union (EU) has condemned the Taliban's reported decision to suspend medical education for women and girls in Afghanistan, calling it a severe violation of human rights. Media reports ...

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, who ...

Afghan women are trained as policewomen in a classroom of a police barracks. The Russian parliament has further tightened the "Foreign Agent Law," with individuals listed by Moscow as "foreign agents" ...

Banned from school by the Taliban, Afghan women fear that President Donald Trump’s suspension of foreign assistance will deny them a last chance at an education. After the U.S. military’s withdrawal ...

The dominant narrative on women in Afghanistan, one that appears fairly regularly in international media, is a story of restrictions, denial, and loss of rights. Under the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate, ...

A Taliban shutdown on midwife and nurse training in Afghanistan has students worried over the health consequences for women. Medical trainees have launched singing protests and taken to social media ...

Members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) signed a declaration in early April supporting gender equality and women’s empowerment in Central Asia. Specifically, Written ...

A senior Taliban figure has urged the group's leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy. Sher Abbas ...