KABUL, AFGHANISTAN: Sofia logs in to class on a laptop in Kabul for an online English course run by one of a growing number of educational institutes trying to reach Afghanistan’s girls and women digitally in their homes. But when the teacher calls on Sofia to read a passage her computer screen freezes. “Can you […]
Afghan girls
Banned from education, ‘idle’ Afghan girls are married off
Thirteen-year-old Zainab should have been shopping for a new school uniform this autumn but, with no prospect of girls’ schools reopening in Afghanistan, she was instead forced to pick out a wedding dress. Since the Taliban seized power in Kabul and banned teenage girls from education, many have been married off — often to much older […]
‘This is how we dress’: Afghan girls overseas pose in colourful attire
Afghan youth rights activist Wazhma Sayle says she was shocked to see a photograph online, apparently of women dressed in black all-enveloping niqabs and gowns, staging a demonstration in support of the country’s new Taliban rulers at Kabul University. The 36-year-old, who is based in Sweden, later posted a photograph of herself on Twitter dressed […]
Afghan girls develop computer game to fight opium production
HERAT: Female Afghan computer coders have developed a computer game to help fight against the country’s opium production. Students of Code to Inspire computer training center have developed a computer video game, in which a protagonist, an Afghan soldier, is tasked to fight against the enemy hidden in the poppy fields and eventually eliminate the […]