Pashtana Durrani News

• Amnesty International USA Honors Pashtana Durrani
  

  

  WCW International Scholar-in-Residence Pashtana Durrani, M.Ed., has been honored with the Ginetta Sagan Award, which recognizes and assists women who are working to protect the liberty and lives of women and children in areas where human rights violations are widespread.
• BBC: Celebrating International Women's Day
  In an interview with BBC News' Kasia Madera, International Scholar-in-Residence Pashtana Durrani speaks about the fight for Afghan girls’ education and her refusal to negotiate with those denying them their future.
• BBC: Portraits of global environmentalists on display
  International Scholar-in-Residence Pashtana Durrani is one of 193 environmentalists featured in Dr. James Nickells’ Global Portrait Project.
• International Literacy Association: 2025 30 Under 30 List
  International Scholar-in-Residence Pashtana Durrani is named on the International Literacy Association's 2025 30 Under 30 List.
• PBS NewsHour: Activists secretly educating Afghan children amid Taliban crackdown
  In a PBS Newshour interview with Amna Nawaz, International Scholar-in-Residence Pashtana Durrani discusses her work educating Afghan girls under the Taliban regime.
• The Cut: Pashtana Durrani Won’t Let Afghanistan’s Girls Disappear
  
  Pashtana Durrani talks about her book, "Last to Eat, Last to Learn."
• NHK World Japan: Education, the Right To Be Humans: Pashtana Durrani / Founder, LEARN Afghan
  Pashtana Durrani is featured in a documentary about her life and her organization, LEARN.
• Global Citizen: Afghanistan Is a Country of Rebels. We Will Never Stop Fighting.
  Pashtana Durrani writes about her experience traveling home to Afghanistan.
• “Afghanistan Is a Country of Rebels. We Will Never Stop Fighting.”
  

  In an excerpt of an essay she wrote for Global Citizen, Pashtana Durrani talks about her experience since the Taliban took power in August 2021.
• CEU Names Afghan Women and Girls Winners of CEU Open Society Prize
  Pashtana Durrani was one of six activists honored at Central European University’s (CEU) 32nd Commencement Ceremony in Vienna, Austria.
• Global Citizen Prize 2023: Meet the 5 Remarkable Activists Who Are This Year’s Winners
  Pashtana Durrani has been awarded the Global Citizen Prize Citizen Award.
• Global Citizen: My Organization Empowers Girls Through Education — By Running Underground Schools in Afghanistan
  Visiting Fellow Pashtana Durrani shares her story.
• Ms. Magazine: The Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2023
  Pashtana Durrani’s memoir, Last to Eat, Last to Learn, is among Ms. Magazine’s most anticipated books of 2023.
• CNN: Major foreign aid groups suspend work in Afghanistan after Taliban bars female employees
  Pashtana Durrani discusses women's rights in Afghanistan.
• NPR: The highest level of education an Afghan girl can now get is 6th grade
  Pashtana Durrani discusses changes to girls' education in Afghanistan under Taliban rule.
• UN Human Rights: Reflecting on progress
  On Human Rights Day, Pashtana Durrani discusses the importance of a gender equal world.
• Q&A: Learning at Wellesley, While Helping Girls Learn in Afghanistan
  

  Avaaz Campaign Director Sarah Morrison (L) and Pashtana Durrani (R) urge world leaders at the UN “Transforming Education Summit” to back a new global treaty to expand children’s right to free education on Sept. 16, 2022. (Avaaz/Andrew Kelly for AP Images)In a Q&A, Visiting Fellow Pashtana Durrani discusses her work to make education accessible to girls in Afghanistan.
• American Prestige: The History of Afghanistan
  Pashtana Durrani joins the American Prestige podcast to discuss the history of Afghanistan.
• Equal Times: Despite one year of Taliban rule, Afghan women haven’t stopped fighting for equality
  Pashtana Durrani discusses the impact of Taliban rule on Afghan women's rights.
• Al Jazeera: How has a year of Taliban rule changed Afghanistan?
  Pashtana Durrani discusses the state of girls' and women's rights in Afghanistan after one year of Taliban rule.
• 4 News: Taliban in control: a year of power in Afghanistan
  Visiting Fellow Pashtana Durrani discusses the state of girls' education in Afghanistan after one year of Taliban rule.
• International Peace Institute: Rethinking Digital Education with Youth in the Lead
  Visiting Fellow Pashtana Durrani spoke on a panel about her work on digital education in Afghanistan.
• NPR: Girls and women in Afghanistan have been blocked from receiving an education
  Visiting Fellow Pashtana Durrani discusses girls' and women's education in Afghanistan.
• PBS NewsHour: Afghan women, girls push for education in the face of Taliban resistance
  Visiting Fellow Pashtana Durrani discusses how Afghanistan's extremist government has barred girls from attending schools.
• Now This: LEARN Is a Grassroots Organization Helping Girls and Women in Afghanistan Continue Their Education Amid Taliban School Ban
  Visiting Fellow Pashtana Durrani discusses her work to advance girls' education in Afghanistan.
• Forbes: How The Taliban’s New Burqa Order Threatens Economic And Workplace Progress For Afghanistan’s Women
  Pashtana Durrani discusses new rules that limit women's rights under the Taliban in Afghanistan.
• Al Jazeera: Sri Lanka: How can the crisis be resolved?
  Visiting Fellow Pashtana Durrani discusses the state of women's rights in Afghanistan.
• Wellesley Magazine: In Exile, But Undaunted
  Visiting Fellow Pashtana Durrani shares her story with the Wellesley Magazine.
• Voa News: Taliban Deny Afghan Girls Education, Block Women From Working Abroad
  Pashtana Durrani shares her personal experience with the issue of women's rights in Afghanistan.
• Newlines Magazine: Six Months After the Fall of Kabul — with Fazelminallah Qazizai, Pashtana Durrani and Emran Feroz
  Pashtana Durrani discusses the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.
• In Pashtana Durrani’s Afghanistan, No Woman Will Be Left Behind
  Pashtana Durrani talks about her educational organization LEARN Afghanistan.
• UNESCO: Three inspiring Afghan women call for support of girls’ and women's education
  During an event at the United Nations, Pashtana Durrani called on the international community to advance girls’ and women's education.