The Taliban are “deliberately depriving” 1.4 million girls of education in Afghanistan since they seized power exactly three years ago, barring them from attending secondary schools, according to figures released by UNESCO. “Afghanistan is today the only country in the world that denies access to education for girls over 12 years of age and for women,” reports the director-general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Training Organization, Audrey Azoulet. “The right to education cannot be compromised” or “negotiated” and “compromised”, she continues: “the international community must remain mobilized to ensure the unconditional reopening of schools and universities for girls and the women”. Adding up the girls and women who left school before the fundamentalist Sunnis even returned to power, today 2.5 million Afghan schoolgirls lack secondary education, or in other words 80% of all girls in school. […]
Source: News Beast
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