School girls turn to roadside bread selling stalls to support families
TALUQAN (SW) – Poverty and sadness is everywhere in the air when you walk through Taluqan, the capital city of Takhar where young school girls
TALUQAN (SW) – Poverty and sadness is everywhere in the air when you walk through Taluqan, the capital city of Takhar where young school girls
KABUL (SW) – Deputy minister at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanakzai, has once again insisted on providing equal education opportunities to
KABUL (SW) – A number of young girls gathered to stage a protest against the persistent closure of girls’ schools in the country. These young girls
MONITORING (SW) – The UN has reiterated calls for reopening of girls’ schools in Afghanistan. UN Special Envoy Otunbayeva met in Kapisa with local de
MONITORING (SW) – A delegation of Pakistani religious scholars who returned home on Friday after “fruitful” meetings with top Afghan and Pakistani Taliban leaders in Afghanistan expressed hope that the Afghan girls will soon be allowed to attend schools in their country, reported Geo news.
KABUL (SW) – A group of women rights activists ‘Kabul School of Critics’ demanded the Islamic Emirate authorities to reopen girls’ schools without any further delay.
KBUL (SW) – The committee tasked with looking into the ways for reopening girls schools has shared its recommendations with the Islamic Emirate’s top leader.
KABUL (SW) – Two months into the academic year, the persistent closure of the girls’ schools above grade six has left the students hopeless.
LASHKARGAH (SW) – Officials at the Afghan telecom company in the southern part of the country say they have plans to provide fiber-optic internet services to six schools in Lashkargah and some other schools in the districts of Helmand.
KABUL (SW) – Recent remarks by the interior ministers, Sirajuddin Haqqani, on reopening of girls’ schools has failed to raise hopes amid grim skepticism.
MONITORING (SW) – The foreign ministers of seven industrialised countries G7 have demanded of the Islamic Emirate to end the increasing restrictions imposed on the rights and freedoms of women and girls in Afghanistan.
TARINKOT (SW) – Pressing economic hardships have led to closure of schools in Uruzgan, locals and officials told Salam Watandar.