UN Condemns 'Shameful' Year-long Ban on Afghan Girls' Education
More than a million teenage girls have been deprived of education across the country
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More than a million teenage girls have been deprived of education across the country
The United Nations on Sunday called on the Taliban to reopen high schools for girls across Afghanistan, condemning the ban, which began exactly a year ago, as
Teenage girls are still barred from school and women are required to cover themselves from head to toe in public, with only their eyes showing.
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United Nations on Sunday called for Afghanistan's Taliban rulers to reopen schools to girls in grades 7-12, calling the anniversary of their exclusion from high school “shameful.”
The UN is increasingly concerned about the 'tragic' policy and other restrictions on basic freedoms that will contribute to a deepening of the economi