Women make up 49% of Afghanistan’s population
Afghanistan’s total population is around 34.3 million in 1401 solar year, the country’s National Statistics and Information Authority (NSIA) estimates.
Taliban arrest a woman and man for eloping
Taliban state-owned media, Bakhtar News Agency, reported the Taliban have detained a young woman, who fled Kabul, along with another...
Indoor female protesters urge the Taliban to reopen girls’ schools
A small group of Afghan women staged an indoor protest, tied their own hands in a symbolic move, and held...
Afghanistan: TV shows have done off-air, journalists detained, and a radio station goes silent
Some Afghan television networks aired the news and other TV shows of BBC, VOA and DW inside the country. The...
Taliban announce gender-segregated weekly timetable for Kabul parks
Ministry of Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice of the Taliban has announced in a statement on Sunday,...
Female protesters demand the reopening of girls’ schools in Afghanistan
“Education is our undeniable right,” read a sign held by teenage schoolgirls in a video of the protest sent to...
Women engage in sports activities secretly in Herat
They say the Taliban have warned women are not allowed to take part in sports activities. Most women have quit...
Kabul women to Taliban: Let girls to go school
The Taliban had promised to reopen schools for all girls. But that didn’t happen. Girls of secondary and high schools,...
Schoolgirls went to school happily, but returned home crying
“Bury us and our dreams alive,” the 17-year-old student called on the Taliban. “Every day I lose more hope for...
Taliban kept millions of schoolgirls out of school
The Taliban government did not allow girls above the sixth grade to return to school, breaking a promise they had...
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