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" Afghan girls take to streets to protest school closure in Paktia"

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" Afghan girls take to streets to protest school closure in Paktia"

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In this news article, Afghan girls are expressing their dissatisfaction with the Taliban's recent closing of four of their schools. Articles such as these really put into perspective how easy it is to take something like education for granted. These closures come just a few weeks after the Taliban leadership told an Al Jazeera rep that they working on creating "safe environments" for women and girls. However currently, there are roughly 3 million girls that are band from getting a secondary education.

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Afghan girls protest against school closure in eastern city

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Dozens of girls rally in Gardez after Taliban shuts four schools, which were reopened on intervention of tribal elders.

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This article highlights the response to the recent ban on girls from attending school in Afghanistan. Instead of accepting and fearing the Taliban, many girls are taking it upon themselves to educate each other, hoping the "dark cloud" will pass.

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Until girls in Afghanistan are allowed to return to secondary education, they are educating each other, with help from the UN. https://t.co/urr1vbepJq

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Forced out of school, but refusing to give up on education in

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Girls in Afghanistan have been forced out of high school, ever since the Taliban returned to power a year ago. A United Nations-backed initiative is training girls to help others in their situation,

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Until girls in Afghanistan are allowed to return to secondary education, they are educating each other, with help from the UN. https://t.co/urr1vbepJq

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Until girls in Afghanistan are allowed to return to secondary education, they are educating each other, with help from the UN. https://t.co/urr1vbepJq
— UN News (@UN_News_Centre) September 25, 2022

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Until girls in Afghanistan are allowed to return to secondary education, they are educating each other, with help from the UN. https://t.co/urr1vbepJq

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Forced out of school, but refusing to give up on education in

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Girls in Afghanistan have been forced out of high school, ever since the Taliban returned to power a year ago. A United Nations-backed initiative is training girls to help others in their situation,

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Until girls in Afghanistan are allowed to return to secondary education, they are educating each other, with help from the UN. https://t.co/urr1vbepJq

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Until girls in Afghanistan are allowed to return to secondary education, they are educating each other, with help from the UN. https://t.co/urr1vbepJq

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Forced out of school, but refusing to give up on education in

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Girls in Afghanistan have been forced out of high school, ever since the Taliban returned to power a year ago. A United Nations-backed initiative is training girls to help others in their situation,

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4 Afghan kids playing with unexploded shell killed in school

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4 Afghan kids playing with unexploded shell killed in school

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This article accounts a recent unintentional bombing that killed 4 little children. This was especially upsetting because it is a constant reminder to the Afghan people that although things may have settled, they seemingly will never truly be at peace.

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ISLAMABAD -- Unexploded ordnance detonated Saturday in southern Afghanistan killing four children and injuring three others after the kids brought it inside their school, police and a doctor said.

The incident in Helmand province happened when the children discovered an unexploded shell and brought it inside their religious school and started playing with it, according a statement from the provincial police chief's office.

The children were ages 7 to 14 and at least three others were injured, according to the police statement.

Afghanistan has suffered from decades of war and remains highly dangerous for children, who often collect scrap metal to sell to support their families. Many are killed or maimed when they come across unexploded ordinance.

Three of the children in Saturday's explosion were killed immediately and a girl later died from her wounds at the hospital in Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital, according to a doctor there. The physician spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to address the media.

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4 Afghan kids playing with unexploded shell killed in school

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ISLAMABAD -- Unexploded ordnance detonated Saturday in southern Afghanistan killing four children and injuring three others after the kids brought it inside their school, police and a doctor said. The incident in Helmand province happened when the children discovered an unexploded shell and brought it inside their religious school and started playing with it, according a statement from the provincial police chief's office.

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This article was made possible by reporter Rahim Faiez from the Associated Press. In this piece, the UN understandably pleads with the Taliban to treat its people especially their women with more regard. This is necessary do the recent reports of harassment, as well as the recent ban the Taliban has put on secondary age age school.

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ISLAMABAD -- The United Nations mission in Afghanistan has accused Taliban authorities of harassing its Afghan female employees, urging local officials to respect all its staff in a statement Monday.

"There has been an emerging pattern of harassment of Afghan U.N. female staff by the de facto authorities," the statement said, referring to the country's Taliban rulers.

Three Afghan women working for the U.N. were recently detained briefly and questioned by "armed security agents of the de facto authorities," it added.

The U.N. called for an immediate end to all such acts of "intimidation and harassment targeting its Afghan female staff," and reminded local authorities of their obligations under international law to guarantee the safety and security of all U.N. personnel operating in Afghanistan.

A statement released by the Taliban late Monday evening denied that local authorities had "detained" any U.N. employees.

The statement added in southern Kandahar province authorities had stopped a group of women, but when they realized they were U.N. employees, stopped questioning them.

A year after the Taliban took power in Afghanistan, teenage girls are still barred from school and women are required to cover themselves from head to toe in public, with only their eyes showing. Hard-liners appear to hold sway in the Taliban-led government, which imposed severe restrictions on access to education and jobs for girls and women, despite initial promises to the contrary.

On Saturday, Taliban authorities shut down five girls' schools above the sixth grade in eastern Afghanistan's Paktia province which had briefly opened after a recommendation by tribal elders and school principals.

Earlier this month, four girls' schools in Gardez, the provincial capital, and one in the Samkani district began operating without formal permission from the Taliban Education Ministry.

On Saturday, all five schools were once again closed by authorities.

The U.N. has repeatedly urged the Taliban to ensure respect for international human rights in the country.

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UN says Taliban have harassed its Afghan female employees

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ISLAMABAD -- The United Nations mission in Afghanistan has accused Taliban authorities of harassing its Afghan female employees, urging local officials to respect all its staff in a statement Monday. "There has been an emerging pattern of harassment of Afghan U.N. female staff by the de facto authorities," the statement said, referring to the country's Taliban rulers.

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Afghanistan evacuee accused of sexually assaulting 12-year-old New Mexico boy, punching child in the face: Officials

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An Afghanistan national who escaped the Middle Eastern country during the Biden administration's tumultuous evacuation has been charged with a child sex crime and violent assault of a 12-year-old boy in New Mexico. On Sept. 21, Shah Mahmood Selab, 35, was charged in federal court with coercion and e...

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Kabul attack: Death toll rises to 35 mostly ‘girls, young women’

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Kabul attack: Death toll rises to 35 mostly ‘girls, young women’

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A suicide bombing at an education center left about 35 dead, and 82 wounded. Surprisingly enough, most of the victims were young girls and women, leading to a whole slew of protests. A rival terrorist group to the Taliban called ISIL, had reportedly claimed responsibility for the attack. Women and women's education have seemed to always be focal for these terrorist groups. I believe that it is unfair and that the United Nations has to put up more of a more valiant effort to protect these women. It is crazy that in 2023, it seems as if some of the world's nations continue to progress forward while some continue to remain stagnant or even regress.

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Dozens of women have protested to call for more protection for the ethnic Hazara community in the wake of the attack.

A suicide bombing has killed at least 35 people at a learning centre in the Dasht-e-Barchi area of Kabul [AFP]

The death toll from a suicide bombing at an education centre in the Afghan capital has risen to 35, according to the United Nations mission to the country, as women reportedly took to the streets to protest against the targeting of the Hazara ethnic minority.

At least 82 others were wounded in Friday's attack at the Kaj education centre in Dasht-e-Barchi, home to a large Hazara community located in western Kabul, according to the UN mission.

The toll is higher than the casualty numbers Kabul authorities have so far released.

"Majority of casualties are girls and young women," the mission tweeted on Saturday. "All names need documenting and remembering and justice must be done."

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, which occurred in a women's section of the centre where young people had gathered to take a mock university exam.

However, the local ISIL (ISIS) affiliate, a rival to the Taliban, has claimed responsibility for similar attacks on education centres in recent years, including a suicide attack on an education centre in the same neighbourhood that killed 24 in 2020.

At least 85 people were also killed in another unclaimed attack near a school in Dasht-e-Barchi in May 2021.

The Taliban, which swept to power amid a foreign troop withdrawal in August 2021, has promised to bring stability to the country after 20 years of war, but a spate of recent violence has undermined that narrative.

On Friday, the AFP news agency reported that more than 50 women defied a Taliban ban on rallies to call for an end to violence against the Hazara people, who have alleged years of persecution by the ruling Taliban while being repeatedly targeted by ISIL attacks.

The group chanted "stop Hazara genocide, it's not a crime to be a Shia", as they marched past a hospital in Dasht-e-Barchi where several victims of the attack were being treated, according to an AFP correspondent.

Protesters later gathered in front of the hospital and chanted slogans as dozens of heavily armed Taliban, some carrying rocket-propelled grenade launchers, kept watch, according to the news agency.

Al Jazeera however, could not independently verify the reports of protests.

Women's protests have become increasingly risky since the Taliban came to power, with numerous demonstrators detained in past rallies or broken up by Taliban forces firing shots in the air.

Rights groups have called on the Taliban to better protect the country's residents.

Amnesty International described Friday's attack as a "shamefaced reminder of the inaptitude and utter failure of the Taliban, as de-facto authorities, to protect the people of Afghanistan".

Meanwhile, the organisation's South Asia campaigner, Samira Hamidi, said the Taliban has done little to protect ethnic minorities since taking power.

"Their actions of omission and commission have only further aggravated the risk to the lives of the people of Afghanistan especially those belonging to ethnic and minority communities," she said in a statement on Friday.

The Norwegian Refugee Council also condemned the attack, calling on the authorities to take steps to ensure that educational facilities are protected.

"An education centre filled with youth preparing for exams should be a venue for joy, focus and excitement - never awash with blood and horror," Neil Turner, the Norwegian Refugee Council's country director in Afghanistan, said in a statement.

Source: Al Jazeera and news agencies

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Kabul attack: Death toll rises to 35 mostly 'girls, young women'

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Dozens of women have protested to call for more protection for the ethnic Hazara community in the wake of the attack. The death toll from a suicide bombing at an education centre in the Afghan capital has risen to 35, according to the United Nations mission to the country, as women reportedly took to the streets to protest against the targeting of the Hazara ethnic minority.

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After looking at the online version of my local newspaper, I was unable to find any international news reports. I cannot say that I am surprised considering that there are many outlets where international news can be found. Lack of entry could be due to the desire to keep local news strictly local

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American held captive in Afghanistan for more than 2 years is released in prisoner swap

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American held captive in Afghanistan for more than 2 years is released in prisoner swap

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An American being held captive for over two years in Afghanistan was finally brought home. This swap was successfully made with the Taliban after "constructive" conversations. I find it amazing how we in a way give these terrorist groups an upper hand by negotiating with them. This article mentioned how the negotiations took months, which only prolonged the American captive's captivity. I am glad that he was brought home safely however, I believe that another means needs to be found that doesn't involve "negotiating" with terrorist.

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American held captive in Afghanistan for more than 2 years is released in prisoner swap | CNN Politics

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Mark Frerichs, an American held captive in Afghanistan for more than two years, has been released in a prisoner swap, a senior Biden administration official confirmed Monday.

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Rahiem Faiez is an Associated Press Journalist who has remained an on-the-ground reporter for all things Afghanistan. His reports have been used by organizations such as ABC, Huffpost, FOX etc

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