Five years after the Taliban reclaimed Afghanistan, 2.4 million girls remain locked out of secondary school, wiping away decades of progress and leaving a generation of young women without access to ...

When news broke that members of the Taliban visited Brussels in late June to discuss migration with European Union officials, Sima Samar said she was left crestfallen. “I was so disappointed because ...

Afghanistan remains the only country in the world where girls and women are formally banned from secondary and higher education,” a UNESCO official said.

North Korea launched a ballistic missile toward the sea on Wednesday, its neighbors said, the second such weapons testing activity in less than a week. The series of launch events were likely a ...

UNESCO urges urgent action as 2.4 million Afghan girls remain barred from education, warning the Taliban’s restrictions threaten their rights, well-being and the country’s future.

Two staff members of the United Nations mission in Afghanistan have been arrested by the country's intelligence agency, the world body told AFP on Tuesday, adding that it had no access to them for ...

Rescue crews and civilians painstakingly searched through rubble Tuesday in the hopes of finding survivors trapped under ...

About 2.4 million girls in Afghanistan are barred from secondary school, the United Nations cultural agency has said, renewing its call on the Taliban government to lift restricti ...

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An estimated 2.4 million Afghan girls remain excluded from secondary education five years after the Taliban took over the country, UNESCO said on Tuesday, renewing its call for the immediate ...