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Women Protest in Kabul for Right to Education, work

By Banafsha Binesh in ToloNews, Mar 8, 2023 at 7:35 PMWomen held a protest in Kabul on International Women’s Day, calling for women’s access to education and work. The protestors called for the removal of restrictions imposed women in Afghanistan. “It is March 8 but women in Afghanistan have no rights to celebrate this day. We are the women who are imprisoned in the country. The restrictions are worsened day-by-day,” said Jolia Parsa, a member…

Taliban free Afghan educator who protested women´s university ban: aide

AFP report March 07, 2023KABUL: Afghanistan´s Taliban authorities have freed a detained academic, his aide told AFP on Monday, months after he used a television appearance to protest the ban on women´s university education. In December, veteran journalism lecturer Ismail Mashal tore up his degree certificates on live TV and denounced the Taliban´s treatment of women in a clip that went viral in Afghanistan. He was detained in February after domestic channels showed him carting…

Aurat March organisers want health, education budgets raised

Report in Dawn, Mar 7th, 2023ISLAMABAD: The organisers of Aurat March on Monday presented a list of 60 demands, including an end to patriarchal violence, increased representation of women at all levels of decision-making concerning climate change, a reduction in the defence budget and increased allocations for health and education. These demands were presented by women’s rights activists, including Farzana Bari and Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir, before the media at a pre-march press conference at the…

National University: Higher education in colleges in shambles

by Mustak Ahmed in Prothom Alo, Feb 28, 2023Century old MC College in Sylhet started honours course in Statistics department under the National University (NU) in 2004-05 academic session. The college launched masters course of the same department in 2011 session. Also the college has degree (pass course) and higher secondary level where statistics is taught. Strikingly, there are only four posts of teachers in the department and only one of them is available since…

China, Iran Call to End Restrictions on Afghan Women

by Fatima Adib in The ToloNews, Feb, 16, 2023 at 9:25 PMThe presidents of China and Iran together called for an end to restrictions on women’s work and education in Afghanistan. The statement was made at the end of a visit to Beijing by Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi during which he discussed various issues with Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China. “The two sides … called on the Afghan rulers to form…

The Taliban and education

by Muhammad Arif Nasar in The Nation, Feb 8, 2023The writer is a freelance contributor.Education helps the sustainabil­ity of a society. It not only sta­bilises one society but helps the region in development. In to­day’s world where all the coun­tries throughout the globe are working to improve their education system, the Afghanistan government, led by the Taliban, banned higher education for female students. Women play a fun­damental role in a country’s pol­itics, society, economy, and…

US imposes new restrictions on Taliban for bans on women

AFP report from Washington, Feb 2, 2023 at 08:49 AMUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced new visa restrictions against the Taliban in response to bans on employment and education for women in Afghanistan. “I am taking action today to impose additional visa restrictions on certain current or former Taliban members, members of non-state security groups, and other individuals believed to be responsible for, or complicit in, repressing women and girls in Afghanistan,” Blinken said…

Students of Hulakdanda see no recourse but to quit studies after Grade 8

by Tika Prasad Bhatta in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 21, 2023Ishwar Shrestha, a 13-year-old eighth-grader at the Hulakdada Basic School in Hulakdada, Manthali Municipality-6, is worried about his secondary education as there are no schools in the village that provide education above the eighth grade. One has to walk at least three hours to reach the nearest secondary school in Bhangeri. Hulakdada is situated in a difficult geography; it takes several hours to go from…

UNSC Calls for ‘Immediate Reversal’ of All Measures against Women

By Fatema Adeeb in ToloNews, Jan 14, 2023 at 11:04 PMThe United Nations Security Council in a meeting held behind closed doors asked the Islamic Emirate to immediately reverse all restrictions on the work and education of women in Afghanistan. A statement issued after the meeting says the Islamic Emirate should uphold its commitments to Afghan women and girls. Speaking at the meeting, the Permanent Representative of Japan to the UN, Kimihiro Ishikane said that…

Taliban hard-liners consolidate control with crackdown on women

By Susannah George in The Washington Post, Jan 10, 2023 at 2:00 a.m. ESTISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Taliban hard-liners are consolidating their control over Afghanistan with the recent bans on women’s education and work, overriding the wishes of some Taliban officials in the capital, Kabul, and at the provincial level, according to government and aid officials. The Taliban’s supreme leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, and his fellow ultraconservatives based in Afghanistan’s second city of Kandahar are cracking down…

World Clerics’ Delegation Seeks Education for Every Muslim

By Imran Danish, TOLOnews, Jan 10, 2023 at 8:55 PMA delegation of Muslim clerics, which has visited Afghanistan, on Tuesday called for ensuring the right to education for every Muslim and emphasized the need for girls’ access to education in Afghanistan. The head of the delegation, Sheikh Mohammad Saghir, said they have discussed education for women and girls in their meetings with the officials of the caretaker government. He said the Islamic Emirate assured that…