The appeal by UNICEF comes as a new school year began in Afghanistan without girls beyond sixth grade. The ban, said the agency, has deprived 400,000 more girls of their right to education, bringing ...

UNICEF is constructing 165 schools for girls and boys across Afghanistan, complete with solar panels, latrine blocks and drilled water wells.

Afghanistan's ban on girls' secondary education ... "The problem is that our children go to school here and we have jobs here,” Obaidullah, an undocumented Afghan refugee living in Peshawar, ...

Religious schools increasingly offer a range of subjects as the mainstream education ban enters its fourth year.

The leadership and decision-makers of the Taliban originate from a remote and underprivileged tribal background in ...

“There was no more life in Afghanistan, otherwise, who can leave their birthplace?” she said. Even those who manage to escape ...

The US sent 10 million school textbooks via airlift to Afghanistan, as well as some teacher trainers. Save the Children Fund (SCF), helped renovate and rebuild schools. In total, more than a ...

Afghanistan has had a tumultuous recent past ... They came to our house and told him they had orders to kill him because he allowed me to go to school. The Mujahideen had already stopped me from going ...

Jalalabad [Afghanistan], March 8 (ANI ... By the time we would go to the city hospital or university hospital, our patient or child would pass away." The vaccination program is also a crucial ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The U.N. children’s agency on Saturday ... The appeal by UNICEF comes as a new school year began in Afghanistan without girls beyond sixth grade. The ban, said the agency ...