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…
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By Mitra Majeedy in ToloNews, Sept 5, 2023 at 9:25 PMFemale students raised concerns over their lack of participation in the kankor exam a day after the results of the 1402 (solar year) were released. They said that they want to go to school and university like boys and play a role in society. Female students once again asked the Islamic Emirate to immediately open schools and universities for girls. “Yesterday, when the results were…
By Asma Saayin in ToloNews, Aug 18, 2023 at 8:14 AMFemale students and teachers said they are worried that nothing was said about schools on the second anniversary of the Islamic Emirate’s takeover. Once again they emphasized their right to education and asked the current government to reopen academic institutions for girls as soon as possible. “Yesterday, I thought that maybe schools, universities, and many other places that were closed would open but they didn’t,”…
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…
By Nizamuddin Rezahi in Khaama Press, Dec 27, 2022Authorities of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan closed two educational centers in Kabul and Herat accommodating more than 1200 female students. Roya Mahboob, the Founder of the Afghan Girls Robotic Team tweeted on Monday that the Taliban authorities forcibly shut the education centers in Herat and Kabul. More than a thousand female students were taking pieces training in business, Robotics, coding, and Information Communications Technology. Following the…
report in Khaama Press online, Dec 24, 2022A group of women in Western Herat province earlier today took to on streets protesting against the ban on female students attending university in Afghanistan. Videos circulating on social media showed a group of women taking cover in a lane in the city of Herat to escape a powerful stream of water aimed to disperse the protesters. Dozens of women holding a protest march could be heard shouting…