2.4 Million Afghan Girls Shut Out of Secondary School 5 Years After Taliban Takeover, UN Says
The UN says at least 1 million girls have been affected, while fathers try home lessons, secret schools and travel abroad.
- On August 6, 2026, Afghan fathers in Kabul continued seeking alternative ways to educate their daughters as the Taliban ban on secondary schooling affects at least one million girls nationwide.
- Taliban authorities returned to power in March 2022, subsequently barring girls from secondary schools based on their interpretation of Islamic law—the only such restriction existing globally.
- Families employ home tutoring with salvaged textbooks while others pay private schools around 10,000 Afghanis monthly, with no graduation certificates offered due to heightened risk.
- Nasir, a 47-year-old father, confided that his younger daughter "is depressed and does not always have strong morale to continue learning on her own at home."
- Despite European countries regularly denouncing Afghan restrictions on women, Sweden, Denmark, and Germany have refused visas to Afghan families, leaving fathers like Engineer Ahmad without clear pathways forward.
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Afghanistan is the only country in the world where girls' education is forbidden after primary school. Returning to power five years ago, the Taliban excluded them from secondary schools and universities.
Lost potential, irreversible harm: UNESCO demands full restoration of education rights for Afghan girls as 2.4 Mn denied schooling - The Tribune
"These restrictions are reversing two decades of progress in expanding access to education: while access to schooling for girls was severely limited in 2001, by 2021 nearly one million girls were enrolled in secondary education," UNESCO stated.
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2.4 million girls banned from Afghan schools since Taliban return: UNESCO
Around 2.4 million girls in Afghanistan have been denied access to secondary education since the Taliban returned to power in 2021, the United Nations said Tuesday, urging an end to such "discrimination".
Five years after the Taliban's return to power, 2.4 million girls in Afghanistan are excluded from secondary education and nearly 4 million could be deprived of it by 2030 if the ban continues, warned UNESCO this Tuesday, which denounced a “systematic violation” of women's fundamental rights and freedoms ... Continue reading “Talibans have left 2.4 million girls uneducated in Afghanistan, in the last five years” The post Talibans have left 2.4 m…
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Taliban wipes out decades of progress as 2.4M Afghan girls remain locked out of school, UN agency says
Five years after the Taliban reclaimed reclaimed Afghanistan, 2.4 million girls remain locked out of secondary school, wiping away decades of progress and leaving a generation of young women without access to the classroom. Afghanistan is now the only country in the world that formally prohibits girls and women from receiving an education beyond the [...]
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