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September 8, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Turkish Press: Nearly 400 schools in Afghanistan will remain closed when the school year starts next week because of violence linked to the Taliban-led insurgency, education officials said Saturday. Full news...
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July 10, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: With their teacher absent, 10 students were allowed to leave school early. These were the girls the gunmen saw first, 10 easy targets walking hand-in-hand through the blue metal gate and on to the winding dirt road. Full news...
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June 19, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: LOGAR - On 12 June two gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on a crowd of female students coming out of high school in the central province of Logar. Three schoolgirls were killed and five wounded. Bilqees' 13-year-old daughter, Shukria, was one of the three killed. The bereaved mother gave IRIN an account of the day her daughter was killed. Full news...
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June 12, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Gunmen riding on a motorbike fired at girls outside a school in Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing two and wounding six, authorities said. The attack took place in Logar province, south of the capital, Kabul, at the end of the school day. The attackers fled, they said. Full news...
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June 6, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: Abdul Kabir, not his real name, left his home in Afghanistan's southern Urozgan province to work for a relative and attend school in neighbouring Kandahar province. Six months later, the 12-year-old found himself in a juvenile prison after being sexually abused. Full news...
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February 21, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs: Jamila Niyazi has received several death threats as principal of Lashkar Gah girls’ high school in the southern Afghan province of Helmand. Niyazi, who oversees 7,000 girls, is a target for ultra-conservative elements, including Taliban insurgents, who use propaganda, coercion and violence to spread their influence. Full news...
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January 31, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Hindustan Times: Insurgents burned down a primary school in southeastern Afghanistan, police said on Wednesday, in the second such attack this year targeting the country's struggling education system. Full news...
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January 18, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
MainStreetNews.Com: Madison County native Doris Aldrich will cover her head again next month and go to Afghanistan. She'll step off the plane in Kabul and ride past the starving and begging children with hands blackened by the cold. She'll feel that hurt inside that comes with witnessing suffering on a grand scale. Full news...
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January 16, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: Ahmad Wali, 9, is combing the rubbish dump for soda cans to sell as a way to support his 11-member family in the Afghan capital, Kabul. Thousands of children work the streets to help their households through the harsh winter. Full news...
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January 2, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: Insecurity and intimidation by gunmen kept some 50,000 school-age children away from continuing their education during the past year in the southern province of Ghazni, officials say. Full news...
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November 27, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: More than half of Afghanistan's children are not going to school because of a shortage of places and teachers, the aid agency Oxfam says. Full news...
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November 15, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: A commander of the National Army Unit of Shindand Airport in Herat Province injured a headmaster and student of high school and beat more than 20 teachers. Full news...
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June 5, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC Persian (Translated by RAWA): Tens of female students of Balk University have strike and closed the entry gate of dormitory to the faces of supervisors for their objection as what they have called the 'attack of policemen to girl's dormitory'. Full news...
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April 12, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Chicago Tribune: The strangers came in the middle of the night. They tied up the school caretakers with turbans and shoved them into a classroom. Then they broke the school windows, poured fuel everywhere and set the principal's office on fire. Full news...
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March 21, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF): As Afghanistan's new school year officially begins tomorrow (Wednesday) UNICEF's Deputy Executive Director, Ms. Rima Salah, has warned of a continued threat facing Afghan women and children from high rates of child and maternal mortality, low levels of school enrolment and neglect of children's fundamental rights. Full news...
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February 23, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: Girl students in the western Herat province grumble in spite of their enthusiasm they are not allowed by school administrations to do take part in sports and recreational activities. Full news...