Somaya Faruqi left Afghanistan two years ago, at age 19. Today she is seizing the opportunity to advocate for girls’ education on a global stage — and sharing messages the world needs to hear.

NPR's Alina Selyukh speaks with Pashtana Durrani, executive director of LEARN, an education nonprofit in Afghanistan that helps Afghan girls access education. Removing women from public life was ...

This 16-year-old, formerly a student at Rabia Balkhi High School in Kabul, was unable to continue her education after the Taliban prohibited Afghanistan's girls from attending secondary school.

September 17 marks three years since the Taliban banned secondary education for girls in Afghanistan, shortly after their return to power in August 2021. While the issue of Afghan girls ...

Habiba and her former classmates Mahtab and Tamana are among hundreds of thousands of teenage girls who have been barred from attending secondary school in most of Afghanistan by the Taliban - the ...

Girls' education in Afghanistan faces a critical crisis. With nearly 4 million children out of school, UNICEF warns of a dark ...

At least 1.4 million girls in Afghanistan have been denied access to secondary education since the Taliban returned to power in 2021, UNESCO, the United Nations' cultural agency, said on August 15 ...

Experts and social activists are concerned over the decline of modern education in Afghanistan as the country marks the third year of the Taliban’s ban on adolescent girls’ education.

One of the few officials in Afghanistan’s Taliban government to support reversing the ban on girls’ education appears to have ...

Muzaffar Ali, an Afghan-Australian human rights activist, is cycling 4,000 kilometers to support education for refugee ...

While the overall average return on investment in education remains low in Afghanistan ... power in 2021 and it has once again banned girls and women from attending school after the sixth grade.