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Education improved in Afghanistan after the Taliban government was deposed in 2001. In 2013, 8.2 million Afghans attended school, including 3.2 million girls. This compared to only 1.2 million Afghans attending school in 2001, with fewer than 50,000 being girls. [20] 39% of girls were attending school in 2017 compared to 6% in 2003.
Women's rights in Afghanistan are severely restricted by the Taliban.In 2023, the United Nations termed Afghanistan as the world's most repressive country for women. [4] Since the US troops withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, the Taliban gradually imposed restrictions on women's freedom of movement, education, and employment.
Drastic changes have also been made to women’s education. ... Bread and Roses, which pulls the curtain back on life for women in Afghanistan, will premiere on Apple TV+ on Nov. 22, 2024.
[9] However, they restricted access to education for teenage girls by allowing only boys to resume schooling. Additionally, they prohibited women in Afghanistan from working in most sectors beyond health and education. [10] [11] [12] Some provinces still allow secondary education for girls, despite the nation-wide ban.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban have deliberately deprived 1.4 million Afghan girls of schooling through bans, a United Nations agency said Thursday. Afghanistan is the only country in the ...
August 23, 2024 at 7:03 AM. Women in Afghanistan will now be forbidden from speaking and showing their faces in public. The country’s Taliban rulers issued the ban under new laws. They were ...
Aisha Khurram (Dari: عایشه خرم), daughter of Karim Khurram (born in 1999 in Kabul), is an Afghan-born human right activists, particularly advocating for women's rights in Afghanistan. [1][2][3] In 2019, she was selected among eighty nominees as the youth representative of Afghanistan to the United Nations in a free competition. [4][5]
Aid to Afghanistan should be made conditional to ensure the protection of women’s rights and access to education under the rule of the Taliban government, a panel of high-level speakers said at ...