This year's Nansen Refugee Award winner, Aqeela Asifi, is being honoured for her courageous work and significant contribution to refugee girls' education. Since arriving in Kot Chandana refugee ...

Afghanistan is the only country in the world that bans girls from attending school beyond the primary level. Education advocate Somaya Faruqi is working with Education Cannot Wait and UNICEF to ...

Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai calls for reopening schools and universities for girls, stressing women’s vital role in ...

Before the start of another Afghan school year, about 200 tribal elders in the southeastern district of Laja Mangal gathered in a schoolyard for an important declaration: Any family that did not send ...

When Zarqa Yaftali speaks about education, she does so not as a distant advocate, but as someone who once sat on the floor of an underground classroom, learning in secret. “When I was a child, during ...

ON International Women’s Day, the global language of equality and empowerment often feels distant from the lived reality of ...

Since the Taliban seized power in 2021, Afghan girls have been massively excluded from school. Deprived of access to secondary and higher education, millions of young women find themselves without ...