2.4M Afghan girls remain barred from secondary school 5 years into Taliban rule

2.4 million girls have lost access to secondary education, reversing educational gains and effectively excluding women from public life and economic participation.

In the five years since the Taliban reclaimed Afghanistan, 2.4 million girls have been barred from secondary school — a prohibition without precedent anywhere else on Earth. UNESCO marked this grim anniversary on Tuesday, naming it not merely a policy failure but a fundamental violation of human rights, one that has erased two decades of hard-won educational progress in a single sweep. The silence of classrooms that once held nearly a million girls speaks to something older and more persistent than politics: the recurring human impulse to limit who is permitted to know, and therefore who is pe

2.4M Afghan girls remain barred from secondary school 5 years into Taliban rule

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