For six hours every day after school, Nahideh works in a cemetery, collecting water from a nearby shrine to sell to mourners ...

On June 11, 2024, girls attend primary school in Kabul, Afghanistan. Since September 2021, the Taliban has barred the country's girls from attending secondary school, robbing them of their right ...

One of those visitors is Australian Suzanne Sandral. She originally wanted to see Afghanistan in the 1960s but the pressures ...

Afghanistan is seeing the emergence of local female tour guides, in a country whose Taliban government imposes the world's ...

Why it matters Twenty years after the first ban on women’s education ended, the Taliban resumed power in 2021 and has once again banned girls and women from attending school after the sixth grade.

More than 1 million girls are affected by the ban, according to the U.N. children’s agency. Afghanistan is the sole country with such restrictions on education.

FILE - A girl reads a book in her classroom on the first day of the new school year, in Kabul, Saturday, March 25, 2023. Afghanistan’s schools open Wednesday for the new educational year, while ...

Girls in Afghanistan turn to religious schools for learning after being banned from formal education beyond sixth grade, according ...

A senior Taliban minister, who publicly condemned the group’s ban on education of girls and women, has reportedly fled Afghanistan amid fears of arrest. Sher Abbas Stanikzai, the Taliban’s ...

However, they made no progress in creating said conditions. When they ruled Afghanistan in the 1990s, they also banned girls’ education.