Afghanistan | Endangered Scholars

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New Decision Restricts Training Abroad for Afghan Scholars Amid Further Limits on Women's Education

Women taking a test at the Institute of Health Sciences, Ghazni, Afghanistan. Photo Credit: NBC News Taliban authorities have started...

Sep 14, 20232 min read

The Taliban's Stranglehold on Women's Right to Education Tightens

Afghan female students take entrance exams at Kabul University in Kabul, before the ban on university and primary schools was enforced...

Feb 25, 20232 min read

Afghan Professor and Women’s Right Activist Arrested by the Taliban

Professor Ismail Mashal with his cart of free books. Photo credit: BBC Since the US military withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, the...

Oct 31, 20222 min read

Blast Kills 53 at Education Center in West Kabul

On September 30th, 2022, a suicide blast at an education center in the Dasht-e-Barchi area of western Kabul killed 53 and wounded more...

Sep 26, 20222 min read

Taliban takeover American University of Afghanistan (AUAF)

In August 2021, when the US withdrew its forces from Afghanistan and the country was taken over by the Taliban, the American University...

Aug 19, 20222 min read

Taliban Attacks Afghan Women Asking for Freedom and Equality

Women gathered in Kabul, Afghanistan, demanding the right to work, study, and participate in politics Photo credit: Nava Jamshidi/Getty...