report in The Frontier Post. Dec 28, 2023KABUL: After the Taliban regained power in Afghanistan, girls were barred from attending school, with only children up to the sixth grade permitted to continue their primary education. Consequently, secret girls’ schools have been established across Afghanistan to continue education for those deprived of further study by the Taliban’s decree.According to the Seattle Times, the non-profit organization Sahar, based in Seattle, USA, supports dozens of these clandestine schools…
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By Mitra Majeedy in TOLOnews Online, Dec 10, 2023 at 7:43 PMThe US special envoy for Afghan human rights and women, Rina Amiri, called for investment in the female education sector in Afghanistan, in a bid to provide the way for a modern and “inclusive Afghanistan.” Speaking at a session at the Doha Forum, Amiri said: “It is a moral imperative and it is a strategic imperative. If we want Afghanistan to continue on the…
by Syed Irfan Raza in Dawn, Dec 8th, 2023ISLAMABAD: The UK envoy on Thursday called on JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman at his residence and asked the latter to use his influence on the Afghan Taliban to remove a bar on women’s education in Afghanistan. Maulana Fazl, however, told High Commissioner Jane Marriott that the Western model of education was “not possible in Afghanistan due to its cultural and traditional norms”. He suggested the West…
Report in TOLOnews Online, Dec 04, 2023 at 9:18 PMThe religious clerics of various countries have visited Afghanistan over the last two years and met with officials of the Islamic Emirate to discuss various issues, including girls’ education and women’s access to work. The Islamic Emirate came to power on August 15, 2021. In July 2022, a number of religious clerics came from Pakistan and in October 2022, a religious clerics’ delegation from Turkey arrived…
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, November 23, 2023Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai recently reiterated the importance of reopening schools and universities for girls in Afghanistan. In a meeting with Iran’s ambassador, Hassan Kazemi Qomi and a senior member of Iran’s Strategic Foreign Relations Council, Karzai stressed that educating girls and boys is vital for Afghanistan’s prosperity. Karzai emphasized the need for a national discourse as the only path to achieving peace and…
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, November 1, 2023Representatives from eight countries and the European Union have expressed their “concern” over the human rights situation in Afghanistan in a joint statement, calling for the lifting of restrictions, including women’s education and employment bans. On Tuesday, the representatives and special envoys from Canada, the European Union, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States issued a joint statement after concluding…
by Melkishiya Andrew in The Daily Morning, Oct 31, 2023The Open University of China and the Open University of Sri Lanka have reached an agreement to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for higher education cooperation and to establish a Chinese language centre in Sri Lanka. The MoU is expected to promote international cooperation, scholarly collaboration, cultural interaction, and friendship.https://www.themorning.lk/articles/lmFVKo2oIqRgaNlqve1o
By Nazir Shinwari in ToloNews, Sept 17, 2023 at 8:07 PMShaykh Hamid Mahmood, a member of the delegation of British religious scholars who recently came to Kabul, said that all girls go to schools up to age 10 or 11 in Afghanistan and girls can continue education in specific subjects and he added that education has not completely stopped. Shaykh Hamid said: “It’s a temporary suspension not on education, temporary suspension on specific secular liberal…
By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press online, Aug 5, 2023The political deputy of the foreign ministry, Sher Mohammad Abad Stanekzai, said that Afghanistan cannot develop without education. Stanekzai, speaking at an event in Kabul on Saturday, asked the higher education and education ministries to pay serious attention to the principle and create the necessary facilities in the education sector. “No country can develop without education, and the Islamic Emirate will open it for its citizens.…
By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press online, July 24, 2023Former President Hamid Karzai and Raffaella Lodice, the EU envoy in Afghanistan, met to discuss the critical issue of education in Afghanistan, particularly for women and girls. Karzai pleaded with the EU diplomat to advance education in the country. Since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, they have imposed several suppressive policies and practices by which girls and women are barred from attending schools beyond sixth…