Today, schools reopen in #Afghanistan. But for millions of girls, they remain closed—five years after the ban on secondary education. Some are still learning through the radio. But can it ever replace school? #GirlsEducation
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Richard Lindsay, the UK’s Special Envoy for Afghanistan, said in a message marking the start of the new school year that millions of Afghan girls will once again be denied their right to education.
He added that excluding women and girls from education harms the country’s future and hinders the progress of every Afghan community.
Lindsay stressed that education must be available to all.
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A piece of the bomb that exploded yesterday in Kabul burst through the window of my home, and the blast waves shattered all the windows. Our family and children are forced to live in these traumatic situations.
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#Heartbroken: Afghan mother mourns her lost son, a victim of war. She tells to journalist, her voice full of anguish, that her son Saeed had been under treatment here for 4 months, but he was killed in Pakistani airstrike. Saeed was married and left behind a daughter and a son.
I just spoke to my mother. The children in my home are traumatised by this heinous act from Pakistan. All the windows in the house were shattered to pieces from the blast. This must not go unanswered. The world is silent, and Kabul is burning.
The situation in my country, Afghanistan 🇦🇫, is dire. I just woke up and learned from my family that a Pakistani drone attacked near my home in Kabul, frightening the children and shattering all the windows.
A father denied medical care in Attock, Pakistan. His crime? Being Afghan. He died. Now his children weep over his lifeless body in a hospital that refused to save him because of his nationality.
This is the devastating cost of state sponsored hatred.
Day 1,636 of the Taliban persecuting #Afghan women.
Alienating girls and women from public life must never be normalised. You are not forgotten.
#LetAfghanGirlsLearn
The Taliban has prohibited education for girls and women, and we have only seen the response has been limited to online condemnation. The UK has traditionally supported Afghan women, but recent policies have effectively shut the door on their opportunities all at once.
As CSW begins, the UK stands with the women and girls of Afghanistan.
We are appalled by the intensification of the Taliban’s repression, including a new penal code which legitimises domestic violence.
These horrific decrees must be reversed.
@Jacqui_Smith1 at the UNSC.
#Afghanistan: “Women are being systematically erased from public life – and now even prevented from entering UN compounds. This is injustice in practice,” said @antonioguterres at #CSW70. Full remarks: https://t.co/U9L6eFdxoI
"Britain has decided that the girl who fought the Taliban’s agenda, who learned English in secret, who turned down a forced marriage, who won her place, is an asylum risk.
Her name is Bahar. She is 18 years old. She did everything we asked of her."
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On #IWD2026, @UNICEFAfg calls for Rights. Justice. Action. for all Afghan women & girls. For 6 months, our female national staff have been denied access to our offices. We echo the UN’s call to immediately lift this ban.
Their role is essential to delivering lifesaving services.
Left: Shabana Mahmood gloats about Labour values
Right: Shabana Mahmood blocked an 18 year old Afghan girl from accepting an education at York or Reading, abandoning her to the Taliban