This year's Nansen Refugee Award winner, Aqeela Asifi, is being honoured for her courageous work and significant contribution to refugee girls' education. Since arriving in Kot Chandana refugee ...

Since the Taliban seized power in 2021, Afghan girls have been massively excluded from school. Deprived of access to secondary and higher education, millions of young women find themselves without ...

When Zarqa Yaftali speaks about education, she does so not as a distant advocate, but as someone who once sat on the floor of an underground classroom, learning in secret. “When I was a child, during ...

The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021 has had a devastating impact on millions of women and girls in the country, curtailing their fundamental rights and freedoms. In the last four and a ...

Afghanistan is at risk of losing more than 25,000 female teachers and health workers by 2030 if the Taliban-led country's ...