A new school year has begun in Afghanistan with more than 2.2 million girls excluded from secondary education, a top UNICEF ...

The Taliban's 2021 takeover in Afghanistan was a disaster for women's rights, causing an almost complete reversal of the hard-won human rights progress over previous decades. Our latest reports show ...

Restrictions on Afghan female aid workers has threatened and reduced access to essential health, and child protection services, while the ban on post primary education for girls has exacerbated ...

UNICEF called on Friday for greater global efforts to end child marriages and provide quality education for all girls, emphasizing the importance of a multisectoral approach to target the root cause ...

Incidents of child marriage rose following these floods and, again, in the wake of flooding in 2022 [Daniel Berehulak/Getty ...