While Sub-Saharan African countries have made progress on gender equality and significant strides in education, girls’ schooling remains a major challenge. Millions of young girls still lack the ...

Malala Yousafzai visits Dabab, Kenya on her birthday in 2016. Since 2013, the Malala Fund has distributed $65 million through more than 400 grants across 27 countries. Now, as gender equality and ...

Malala Fund has announced a bold new strategy to champion girls’ education worldwide, pledging $50 million in grants to secure rights and resources for girls to complete 12 years of education. This ...

When we talk about global education rights in 2025, one stark reality remains unthinkable. Afghanistan stands out tragically as the only country in the world where secondary and higher education is ...

The UN children’s agency has urged Afghanistan’s Taliban-led government to immediately lift a ban on girls' education beyond primary school, saying that if the ban continues until 2030 more than 4 ...

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Saturday called on Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to immediately lift the ongoing ban on girls’ secondary education, warning that the restriction threatens ...

As we mark International World Education Day on January 24, 2025, the persistent issue of school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV) continues to undermine girls' right to education across the ...

September 19 marks four years since Afghan girls were barred from secondary schooling in Afghanistan. What began as a “temporary measure” in September 2021 has hardened into the most systematic denial ...

Momentum is mounting toward a new global treaty to strengthen every child’s right to free education. From September 1 to 3, governments gathered at the United Nations in Geneva to consider an optional ...