Education International

Further Reading and Information

Please note that the websites and organisations cited below do not necessarily reflect the views of EI and its policies.

The United Nations

• International Labour Organisation

  ILO in Afghanistan

• Save the Children – UNICEF & Afghanistan Education Cluster

  • Afghanistan: Back to School - Situation Update (April 2022)
  • 80% of Secondary School Girls in Afghanistan Missing Out on Education, One Month Since Taliban Ban Extended

• UNESCO

  "In Afghanistan, female teachers are vital for girls to be able to enroll in school, but women face cultural barriers in seeking work in areas where they are not chaperoned by family members,"" according to the ‘Education for All Global Monitoring Report,’ released globally by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

  • Un Report Urges Afghanistan to Recruit Female Teachers Locally to Boost Girls’ Education
  • Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report

• UN Human Rights

  Special Rapporteur on Afghanistan

• UNICEF

  • A Global Initiative on Out-of-School Children
  • Afghanistan – Education Equity Profile for Adolescent Girls: Barriers to education for adolescent girls in Afghanistan, and policies and strategies to address them
  • UNICEF Data: Afghanistan

• United Nations

  Taliban’s backtracking on girls’ education, ‘deeply damaging’

• United Nations Girls Education Initiative

  UN Girls’ Education Initiative Calls to Action on Afghanistan

• WFP USA

  Creating a New Future: Girls and Women’s Education in Afghanistan

Updates from Human Rights Organisations

• Advocates for Afghan Education

  UN urged to do more to protect the right to education in Afghanistan

• Amnesty International

  Taliban’s backtrack on school re-opening for girls irreversibly impacts their future

• Asvaka

  MOE: Afghanistan facing lack of female teachers

• Human Rights Watch

  • Toll of Ban on Girl’s Secondary Education
  • Four ways to Support Girls’ access to Education in Afghanistan

• Malala Fund

  Nearly 3.7 million children are out of school in Afghanistan — and more than half are girls

• Open Democracy

  Nine months on from the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul, teenage girls remain deprived of their right to education.

  The volunteers risking their lives to secretly educate Afghanistan’s girls

• United States Institute of Peace

  Taliban’s Ban on Girls’ Education in Afghanistan

Media Links

• ADP

  Female Teaching Staff To Be Reinstated At Schools: Report

• Afghan Analysts Network

  Who Gets to Go to School? What people told us about education since the Taleban took over

• Associated Press

  Afghan girls face uncertain future after 1 year of no school

• BBC

  • The teacher defying the Taliban on girls' education
  • Afghanistan: The secret girls school defying the Taliban

• BBC World Service

  Article 26: Right to education case study: EDUCATION IN AFGHANISTAN

• NPR

  • Secret schools enable Afghanistan's teen girls to skirt Taliban's education ban
  • Taliban reverses decision, barring Afghan girls from attending school beyond 6th grade

• PBS

  Afghan women, girls push for education in the face of Taliban resistance

• Reuters

  Taliban U-turn leaves Afghan girls shut out of school

• The Conversation

  The Taliban is holding girls’ education hostage in Afghanistan – the question is, why?

• The Guardian

  • Heroes like Shazia, Malala’s schoolfriend, need help in the fight for education
  • Taliban U-turn over Afghan girls’ education reveals deep leadership divisions
  • Hypocrisy or a reason for hope? The Taliban who send their girls to school
  • Girls allowed: The secret schools defying Taliban policy

• TIME

  Is Gaining Knowledge a Sin?' Afghan Girls Contemplate a Future Without Schools After the Taliban Backtracks

Other Links

• Council on Foreign Relations

  How to Protect the Hope for Girls' Education in Afghanistan

• International Political Economy (IPE)

  Female Education in Afghanistan After the Return of the Taliban

• Swedish Committee for Afghanistan

  For an Afghanistan Free From Poverty, Violence and Discrimination