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Afghanistan: Girls Want to Learn Despite Taliban School Ban

The Taliban's policy denies Afghan girls education, leading to early marriage and lost career opportunities, with calls for international action against this human rights violation.

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According to a UN survey, most Afghans consider girls' education important. Despite the Taliban banning them from attending school, hundreds of thousands of girls are learning through alternative programs.
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MADRID, 17 (EUROPA PRESS) The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has denounced Wednesday that more than 2.2 million girls have been deprived of access to education during the last four years of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, a country where children are increasingly excluded from this area. UNICEF Executive Director Catherine

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Photo: © UN WOMEN/Sayed Habib Bidell After four years of banning Afghan girls from attending school beyond sixth grade, a whole generation is at risk of being lost, the representative of the UN holder for that country warns in the Security Council. Geneva, Switzerland.- Four years after the Taliban's return to power, the country plunges into a whirlwind of intertwined crises: economic collapse, recurrent droughts, rampant famine, an inverse exod…

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Human Rights Watch broke the news in New York, United States on Wednesday, September 17, 2025.
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