Pashtana Durrani Travels the Globe on Behalf of Afghan Girls
Research & Action Report / Research & Action Annual Report 2025
Her Right to Learn: Educating Girls in Afghanistan
For the media / Media Library
Amnesty International USA Honors Pashtana Durrani
For the media / 2025
DW: Taliban's internet shutdown in Afghanistan: What's at stake?
Recent Coverage / 2025
Al Jazeera: Did restrictions on women workers hamper Afghanistan’s earthquake response?
Research Points the Way Toward Innovations in Women's Education
Media Library / Videos by WCW Scholars and Trainers
BBC: Celebrating International Women's Day
BBC: Portraits of global environmentalists on display
International Literacy Association: 2025 30 Under 30 List
PBS NewsHour: Activists secretly educating Afghan children amid Taliban crackdown
The Cut: Pashtana Durrani Won’t Let Afghanistan’s Girls Disappear
Recent Coverage / 2024
NHK World Japan: Education, the Right To Be Humans: Pashtana Durrani / Founder, LEARN Afghan
Global Citizen: Afghanistan Is a Country of Rebels. We Will Never Stop Fighting.
“Afghanistan Is a Country of Rebels. We Will Never Stop Fighting.”
Research & Action Report / Research & Action Annual Report 2023
CEU Names Afghan Women and Girls Winners of CEU Open Society Prize
Recent Coverage / 2023
Global Citizen Prize 2023: Meet the 5 Remarkable Activists Who Are This Year’s Winners
Advancing Gender Equality Around the World: Four Innovative, Technology-Driven Approaches
Global Citizen: My Organization Empowers Girls Through Education — By Running Underground Schools in Afghanistan
UNESCO: Three inspiring Afghan women call for support of girls’ and women's education
Ms. Magazine: The Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2023
CNN: Major foreign aid groups suspend work in Afghanistan after Taliban bars female employees
Recent Coverage / 2022
NPR: The highest level of education an Afghan girl can now get is 6th grade
UN Human Rights: Reflecting on progress
Q&A: Learning at Wellesley, While Helping Girls Learn in Afghanistan
Research & Action Report / Research & Action Annual Report 2022
American Prestige: The History of Afghanistan
Equal Times: Despite one year of Taliban rule, Afghan women haven’t stopped fighting for equality
Al Jazeera: How has a year of Taliban rule changed Afghanistan?
4 News: Taliban in control: a year of power in Afghanistan
International Peace Institute: Rethinking Digital Education with Youth in the Lead
NPR: Girls and women in Afghanistan have been blocked from receiving an education
PBS NewsHour: Afghan women, girls push for education in the face of Taliban resistance
Summer School: Gender Equity in Education
Now This: LEARN Is a Grassroots Organization Helping Girls and Women in Afghanistan Continue Their Education Amid Taliban School Ban
Forbes: How The Taliban’s New Burqa Order Threatens Economic And Workplace Progress For Afghanistan’s Women
Al Jazeera: Sri Lanka: How can the crisis be resolved?
Wellesley Magazine: In Exile, But Undaunted
Voa News: Taliban Deny Afghan Girls Education, Block Women From Working Abroad
Women, Gender, Afghanistan
WCW Visiting Fellow Pashtana Durrani Speaks on International Women's Day
Newlines Magazine: Six Months After the Fall of Kabul — with Fazelminallah Qazizai, Pashtana Durrani and Emran Feroz
Pashtana Durrani, M.Ed.
Scholars & Trainers / Active Researchers
In Pashtana Durrani’s Afghanistan, No Woman Will Be Left Behind
