Pak Tharparkar region struggles to educate girls

With a population of 1.8 million, the district has limited educational facilities, and the ones that exist are...

Pakistan: Teachers agitate over non-payment of salaries

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has failed to pay the salaries to teachers of non-formal girls' schools in the...

Pakistan: Educational crisis deepens as over a dozen girls' close

In the Shangla district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, approximately twelve government schools for girls are closed, and...

Amnesty Int'l urges Taliban to reopen secondary schools for girls

Amnesty International stressed that the Taliban's policies violate international laws.

Terrorists torch girls' middle school in North Waziristan 

Some unidentified terrorists torched a girls' middle school in the Razmak tehsil of North Waziristan in Khyber...

Pak: Another girls' school in South Waziristan bombed

The north-western region of the country has been plagued by terror attacks since mid-2021, with several girls'...

Stop excuses open girls schools: Amnesty International to Taliban

Amnesty International, an NGO for human rights, has demanded the Taliban authorities to immediately reopen all...

Hamid Karzai urges Taliban to reopen girls’ schools, universities

Former Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai on the country’s 104th independence anniversary, urged the Taliban to...

Gas, chemical attacks in Iran: Dozens of schoolgirls hospitalized

According to the reports received by VOA and videos posted on social media, at least five schools in different...

Schoolgirl poisonings: Iran arrests more than 100 people

Iran has seen a wave of suspected poisonings, carried out almost entirely at girls' schools, in recent months. The...

UN condemns Taliban decision to suspend women from universities

In a statement, United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said the UN and its humanitarian partners...

Female students in Farah call on Taliban to reopen girls' schools

This comes as officials of the Department of Education in Farah said that around 3,500 female students are studying...