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| Afghan schoolboys attend their first classes at a high school in Kabul, March 25, 2023. © 2023 Ahmad Sahel Arman/AFP via Getty Images |
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How Taliban Schools Are Failing Boys and AfghanistanThe Taliban’s abusive educational policies in Afghanistan have not just harmed women and girls – they also threaten the futures of boys. Talban authorities have made sweeping changes to education, including dismissing all female teachers in boys’ schools. This has left many boys to be taught by unqualified teachers or sit in classrooms with no teachers at all. The Taliban have increased the use of corporal punishment in the classroom and regressively altered school curriculum. Some boys and parents that Human Rights Watch spoke to described officials beating boys before the whole school for a haircut, a clothing infraction, or for having a mobile phone. The Taliban have also eliminated subjects including arts, sports, English, and civic education. In addition to the sharp decline in the quality of boys’ education, Afghanistan’s humanitarian and economic crises have placed greater demands on boys to work and support their families, forcing many to leave school altogether. This has all dimmed many boys’ hope for the future. Afghan boys are also increasingly struggling with anxiety, depression, and other mental health problems as services to help are sparse. Bans on secondary and higher education for girls and women have rightly grabbed global headlines since the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021. And while boys are not prohibited from attending school beyond the sixth grade as girls are, Taliban policies are causing irreversible damage to the Afghan education system and creating a lost generation of boys as well as girls. It’s past time the international community responded to the crisis. Read More |
| Two Israeli strikes on a group of Lebanese, American, and Iraqi journalists in south Lebanon on October 13 were apparently deliberate attacks on civilians, which is a war crime. Read More |
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| The authorities in Jordan have systematically targeted lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights activists and coordinated an unlawful crackdown on free expression and assembly around gender and sexuality. Read More |
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| Mariana Lozano, a young activist from Colombia, is the 2023 recipient of a Human Rights Watch award for her work as an emerging advocate for the rights of young people with disabilities in Colombia. Read More
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The Latest from COP28The annual United Nations climate conference, COP28, is underway in Dubai, and Human Rights Watch is on the ground. Here are some of our observations from the last week.Here Read more of our latest news from the conference. |
It’s Human Rights Day! … almostDecember 10 is International Human Rights Day and this year’s celebration marks the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In our Daily Brief yesterday, Andrew Stroehlein reflects on what this document promises and how we have and have not lived up to its potential. Read (and subscribe to) The Daily Brief today |
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