A Pakistani crackdown on Afghans has seen some families handed deadlines of hours, or just minutes, to collect whatever they ...

While Balochistan is widely known for enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings, far less attention is given to how anti-Baloch repression manifests in other parts of the country.

Mohammad Sharafoddin, his wife and young son walked at times for 36 hours in a row over mountain passes as they left ...

Pakistan's children are losing weeks of education each year to school closures caused by climate change-linked extreme ...

Since the Taliban returned to power in 2021, higher-education has been banned for girls over 12 in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan. Shukria, another fifth grader, is washing her hands outside the latrine block. "Without school washrooms I was always distracted in class, worrying about where I could go when I ...

In Afghanistan, these schools are controlled by the Taliban ... to cover their faces and bodies in public but also prohibit them from raising their voices outside the home. Young men monitor women and ...

In Afghanistan, these schools are controlled by the Taliban ... in public but also prohibit them from raising their voices outside the home. Young men monitor women and act as moral police ...

"My biggest concern is that our certificates won't be recognised outside our online school," she says. "If that happens, I won't be able to get a scholarship or a job." While women in Afghanistan ...

Many of the unofficial underground schools in Afghanistan operate with limited resources — of both supplies and educators. They get support from women's rights and education activists outside ...

“One day, they asked me to start the class earlier because they couldn’t stay outside in the dark. The Taliban had banned them.” Attending a secret school under the rule of the Taliban is not the same ...

This was a secret school, set up to teach girls despite ... to you directly,” Hakim said from an undisclosed location outside Afghanistan. “So when they (the Taliban) were asking them ...