UNICEF works with partners to ensure that schools provide a safe, inclusive and healthy environment for learning, which helps ...

At least 1.4 million girls in Afghanistan have been denied access to secondary education since the Taliban returned to power in 2021, UNESCO, the United Nations' cultural agency, said on August 15.

Sadaf, age 18, joined the inaugural round of the Stealth Sisters program in July 2022, only months after the Taliban closed schools for girls in Afghanistan. Joining the program was an act of ...

Afghanistan is the only country in the world that bans girls from attending school beyond the primary level. Education advocate Somaya Faruqi is working with Education Cannot Wait and UNICEF to ...

A study of 27 projects educating marginalized girls in lower- and middle-income countries finds that whole communities need to be mobilized as “agents of change” to ensure the effects last Education ...

A new survey shows that there is a clear difference between girls and boys when it comes to well-being at school. "Girls are ...

FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2018, file photo, Michelle Obama participates in the International Day of the Girl on NBC's "Today" show in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File) NEW YORK (AP) — ...

As India prepares for Budget 2026, Devendra Kumar, founder of the Ladli Foundation, has warned that the digital divide is an ...

UNESCO stands with Pakistan’s students and teachers affected by the flood. Together with national and local authorities, ...

On World Education Day, UNICEF and UNESCO warned that 2.2 million Afghan girls are barred from education, threatening Afghanistan’s future development and stability.