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UN demands Afghanistan to lift "all bans on women", restore rights
Updated : 3 months, 4 weeks ago IST
"UNDP also reminds us of the critical need to lift all bans on women, including restoring women's ability to work and to move outside the home as part of humanitarian and recovery operations. Not to mention the right of girls to go to school," Dujarric stated.
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"2.8 million female students enrolled in schools," Taliban FM says
Updated : 5 months ago IST
Muttaqi said that they have women students currently pursuing education in schools.
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UNICEF launches vocational training for 200 Afghan girls amid education ba
Updated : 7 months ago IST
UNICEF launched a six-month vocational training in Herat for 200 girls aged 15-25 deprived of education. The program, supported by Japan, teaches sewing and carpet weaving to empower Afghan girls amid ongoing restrictions, says Khaama Press.
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Taiwan bans academic ties with two Chinese universities
Updated : 1 year ago IST
Taiwan has banned two Chinese universities, Huaqiao University and Jinan University, from academic exchange programs due to their ties to Beijing's United Front Work Department. The Ministry of Education warned institutions against collaboration, citing national security concerns.
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Afghanistan: One year since education ban, girls demand reopening of unive
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
After the completion of one year of the ban on girls' education, women in Afghanistan are demanding that the Taliban regime reopen universities, Khaama Press reported.
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Afghanistan: Publishers, booksellers say import, sales down amid closure o
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Publishers and booksellers on Monday said the import of books has stopped and the sale of books in Kabul has reduced dramatically, TOLO News reported, adding that the drop in sales comes amid the closure of schools and universities for women and girls under the Taliban regime.
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Taliban claimed to have learned from past mistakes: Report
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The Taliban, in the conversations that followed last year's Doha Peace Talks, claimed to have learned from their past mistakes. This time, they were going to be benevolent guardians of the state, and show the West and the world what an Afghan Islamic republic could accomplish, The Khaama Pre
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35 Private Afghan universities could collapse following women's education
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The announcement of the woman's education ban in Afghanistan can possibly lead to the closure of 35 private universities.
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Taliban justifies women education ban amid criticism: Report
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The Taliban-appointed Acting Minister of Higher Education of Afghanistan Nida Mohammad Nadim said there is no opposition to the barring of women from university education in the country.
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Taliban must achieve trust of their own people first: Former Afghan Presid
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 11 (ANI): Former president of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai has expressed concern over the education ban on girls' education imposed by the Taliban and said such a step could push the country further backwards.
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Female teachers to be reinstated in Afghanistan schools
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 6 (ANI): Amidst several discussions in Afghanistan over the Taliban decree banning secondary schools for girls, the Nimroz education department has agreed to reinstate female teachers in the school.
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Dress restrictions tighten for Afghanistan girls' schools, says rights gro
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 28 (ANI): After seizing powering August the last year, the Taliban instituted a de facto ban on girls' secondary education, even though community pressure resulted in some girls' secondary schools reopening in about nine provinces.
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